Overall Green Earthquake alert in Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 27 Mar 2017 21:26 UTC

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M 5 in Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 27 Mar 2017 21:26 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 1108811
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.0M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	6.0525 , -32.9701
Event Date:	27 Mar 2017 21:26 UTC 27 Mar 2017 19:26 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	27 Mar 2017 21:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us20008v4g	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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