Overall Green Earthquake alert in Mexico on 02 Feb 2017 00:52 UTC

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M 4.8 in Mexico on 02 Feb 2017 00:52 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 1104590
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	Km
Lat/Lon:	17.4387 , -101.0951
Event Date:	02 Feb 2017 00:52 UTC 01 Feb 2017 18:52 Local
Exposed Population:	360000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	02 Feb 2017 01:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.4 (Mexico)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0.1
us20008fsu	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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