Overall Green Earthquake alert in Mexico on 20 May 2017 16:58 UTC

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M 4.7 in Mexico on 20 May 2017 16:58 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 1113454
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	29.97 Km
Lat/Lon:	17.0861 , -105.3473
Event Date:	20 May 2017 16:58 UTC 20 May 2017 09:58 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	20 May 2017 17:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10008tuf	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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India plans tsunami warning system for South China Sea, like China 5/24/2017 4:41:00 PM.

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India mulls over setting up tsunami early warning system in South Chin.. 5/24/2017 2:49:00 PM.

The government is exploring the possibility of setting up a tsunami early warning system in the disputed South China Sea, which has been witnessing China’s growing assertiveness. M Rajeevan, Secretary of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, said

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Japan’s Emperor Akihito takes exception to ‘just performing imperial r.. 5/24/2017 2:48:00 PM.

His words may have been indirect and diplomatic, but there is little disguising the anger of Emperor Akihito of Japan in response to comments by at least one member of a panel set up by the government to consider his abdication. A leak from

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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