Overall Green Earthquake alert in Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 06 Jan 2014 16:02 UTC

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M 5.1 in Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 06 Jan 2014 16:02 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 1022429
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.1M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-1.1611 , -23.5815
Event Date:	06 Jan 2014 16:02 UTC 06 Jan 2014 14:02 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	06 Jan 2014 16:49 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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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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