Overall Green Earthquake alert in El Salvador on 04 Jan 2017 16:45 UTC

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M 4.9 in El Salvador on 04 Jan 2017 16:45 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 1102515
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	Km
Lat/Lon:	13.1116 , -89.4042
Event Date:	04 Jan 2017 16:45 UTC 04 Jan 2017 10:45 Local
Exposed Population:	3960000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	04 Jan 2017 23:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.6 (El Salvador)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	-0.8		-0.8
us10007pxt	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 (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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