Overall Green Earthquake alert in South Indian Ocean on 06 Jan 2014 17:00 UTC

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M 5 in South Indian Ocean on 06 Jan 2014 17:00 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 1022432
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.0M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-37.2866 , 52.2075
Event Date:	06 Jan 2014 17:00 UTC 06 Jan 2014 20:00 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	06 Jan 2014 22:26 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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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