Overall Green Earthquake alert in Guam on 29 Jan 2017 13:47 UTC

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M 5 in Guam on 29 Jan 2017 13:47 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 1104341
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.0M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	12.691 , 145.1491
Event Date:	29 Jan 2017 13:47 UTC 29 Jan 2017 23:47 Local
Exposed Population:	140000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	29 Jan 2017 15:30 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0.1
us10007w1b	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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