Overall Green Earthquake alert in Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 20 Feb 2016 12:48 UTC

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M 4.8 in Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 20 Feb 2016 12:48 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 1081003
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	4.5349 , -32.6893
Event Date:	20 Feb 2016 12:48 UTC 20 Feb 2016 10:48 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	20 Feb 2016 13:39 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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