Overall Green Earthquake alert in Mexico on 16 May 2017 11:10 UTC

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M 4.7 in Mexico on 16 May 2017 11:10 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 1113120
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	16.2759 , -105.1137
Event Date:	16 May 2017 11:10 UTC 16 May 2017 04:10 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	16 May 2017 11:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Mexico)

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10008spm	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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