Overall Green Earthquake alert in E. Caroline Islands, Micronesia on 14 May 2014 20:56 UTC

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M 6.1 in E. Caroline Islands, Micronesia on 14 May 2014 20:56 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 1031731
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.1M
Depth:	10.59 Km
Lat/Lon:	6.4585 , 144.8772
Event Date:	14 May 2014 20:56 UTC 15 May 2014 06:56 Local
Exposed Population:	About 311 people within 100km
Inserted at:	14 May 2014 21:23 UTC

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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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