Overall Green Earthquake alert in Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 16 Feb 2017 05:38 UTC

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M 5 in Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 16 Feb 2017 05:38 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 1105679
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.0M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-17.8388 , -13.7543
Event Date:	16 Feb 2017 05:38 UTC 16 Feb 2017 04:38 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	16 Feb 2017 06:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us20008k4y	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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