Overall Green Earthquake alert in Mid-Indian Ridge on 21 May 2017 08:12 UTC

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M 5 in Mid-Indian Ridge on 21 May 2017 08:12 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 1113505
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.0M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-28.5833 , 74.2244
Event Date:	21 May 2017 08:12 UTC 21 May 2017 13:12 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	21 May 2017 08:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10008u05	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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