Overall Green Earthquake alert in El Salvador on 13 May 2017 22:57 UTC

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M 4.5 in El Salvador on 13 May 2017 22:57 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1112920
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	12.9381 , -90.0987
Event Date:	13 May 2017 22:57 UTC 13 May 2017 16:57 Local
Exposed Population:	520000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	13 May 2017 23:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	5.5 (Guatemala)
INFORM Coping capacity list:	Guatemala= 5.5; El Salvador= 4.6

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10008s95	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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