Overall Green Earthquake alert in Nicaragua on 11 Apr 2014 20:29 UTC

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M 6.6 in Nicaragua on 11 Apr 2014 20:29 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 1029499
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.6M
Depth:	138.58 Km
Lat/Lon:	11.7098 , -85.9631
Event Date:	11 Apr 2014 20:29 UTC 11 Apr 2014 14:29 Local
Exposed Population:	2555236 people within 100km
Inserted at:	11 Apr 2014 20:47 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.3		0.3
	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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