Overall Green Earthquake alert in Albania on 24 May 2017 10:30 UTC

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M 4.5 in Albania on 24 May 2017 10:30 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 1113694
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	41.58 , 20.25
Event Date:	24 May 2017 10:30 UTC 24 May 2017 12:30 Local
Exposed Population:	2990000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	24 May 2017 11:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.2 (Albania)
INFORM Coping capacity list:	Albania= 4.2; Serbia= 3.8; The Republic of North Macedonia= 3.7

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
EMSC	0		0
593945	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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