Overall Green Earthquake alert in Chagos Archipelago Region on 25 Feb 2016 10:53 UTC

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M 4.9 in Chagos Archipelago Region on 25 Feb 2016 10:53 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 1081312
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	13.3 Km
Lat/Lon:	-3.4126 , 68.4313
Event Date:	25 Feb 2016 10:53 UTC 25 Feb 2016 15:53 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	25 Feb 2016 11:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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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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