Overall Green Earthquake alert in Indonesia on 16 Nov 2016 15:10 UTC

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M 5.7 in Indonesia on 16 Nov 2016 15:10 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 1098578
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.7M
Depth:	85.86 Km
Lat/Lon:	-8.9671 , 113.1814
Event Date:	16 Nov 2016 15:10 UTC 16 Nov 2016 23:10 Local
Exposed Population:	3150000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	16 Nov 2016 16:39 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		n.a
us100078vh	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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