Overall Green Earthquake alert in Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 16 Aug 2017 19:46 UTC

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M 5.2 in Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 16 Aug 2017 19:46 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 1119438
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.2M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-24.9606 , -13.4807
Event Date:	16 Aug 2017 19:46 UTC 16 Aug 2017 18:46 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	16 Aug 2017 20:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us2000a8vq	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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