Overall Green Earthquake alert in El Salvador on 16 May 2017 04:03 UTC

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M 5.1 in El Salvador on 16 May 2017 04:03 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 1113097
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.1M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	12.8809 , -90.1699
Event Date:	16 May 2017 04:03 UTC 15 May 2017 22:03 Local
Exposed Population:	170000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	16 May 2017 04:24 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	0.2		0.2
us10008sng	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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