Overall Green Earthquake alert in Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 20 Feb 2016 14:54 UTC

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M 4.9 in Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 20 Feb 2016 14:54 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 1081008
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	5.0102 , -32.6824
Event Date:	20 Feb 2016 14:54 UTC 20 Feb 2016 12:54 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	20 Feb 2016 18:15 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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