Overall Green Earthquake alert in Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 30 Jan 2017 13:37 UTC

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M 5.2 in Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 30 Jan 2017 13:37 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 1104408
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.2M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	34.5933 , -36.601
Event Date:	30 Jan 2017 13:37 UTC 30 Jan 2017 11:37 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	30 Jan 2017 13:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10007w68	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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