Overall Green Earthquake alert in Colombia on 12 Jan 2017 16:06 UTC

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M 5.5 in Colombia on 12 Jan 2017 16:06 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 1103086
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.5M
Depth:	3.26 Km
Lat/Lon:	6.0529 , -77.9322
Event Date:	12 Jan 2017 16:06 UTC 12 Jan 2017 11:06 Local
Exposed Population:	About 45000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	12 Jan 2017 16:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4 (Colombia)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10007svx	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),

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