Overall Green Earthquake alert in Portugal on 29 Mar 2017 06:29 UTC

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M 5.1 in Portugal on 29 Mar 2017 06:29 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 1108902
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.1M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	39.9064 , -29.2137
Event Date:	29 Mar 2017 06:29 UTC 29 Mar 2017 04:29 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	29 Mar 2017 06:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Portugal)

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us20008vjc	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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