Overall Green Earthquake alert in Congo, The Democratic Republic of the on 07 Aug 2015 01:28 UTC

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M 5.5 in Congo, The Democratic Republic of the on 07 Aug 2015 01:28 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 1062440
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.5M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-2.1022 , 28.9298
Event Date:	07 Aug 2015 01:28 UTC 07 Aug 2015 03:28 Local
Exposed Population:	8380000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	07 Aug 2015 02:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.6		0.6
	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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