Overall Green Earthquake in Guam on 09 Aug 2023 09:20 UTC

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M 5.6 in Guam on 09 Aug 2023 09:20 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 1386251
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.6M
Depth:	451 Km
Lat/Lon:	13.4243 , 144.1103
Event Date:	09 Aug 2023 09:20 UTC 09 Aug 2023 19:20 Local
Exposed Population:	160 thousand in MMI II
Inserted at:	09 Aug 2023 09:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Guam)

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000kytu	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	0
	C2 shakemap	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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