Overall Orange Earthquake alert in Bosnia & Herzegovina on 26 Nov 2019 09:19 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1195097
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.4M
Glide number:	EQ-2019-000158-BIH
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	43.2415 , 17.9617
Event Date:	26 Nov 2019 09:19 UTC 26 Nov 2019 10:19 Local
Exposed Population:	About 27000 people in MMI 30 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at:	26 Nov 2019 09:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.5 (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
INFORM Coping capacity list:	Bosnia & Herzegovina= 4.5; Croatia= 3.1

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	1		1
us70006d4h	Scaled population (raster)	3.3
	C1 shakemap	-0.59
	C2 shakemap	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0.93

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Bosnia and Herzegovina - Earthquake (ECHO 27 Nov 2019)Wed, 27 Nov 2019 11:00

An earthquake of 5.4 M, at a depth of 10 km, struck Herzegovina-Neretva Canton (Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, south-eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina) on 26 November at 9.19 UTC. The epicentre was approximately 16 km south-east of Mostar.
Up to 17,000 people were exposed to very strong shaking, and up to 110,000 to strong shaking.
As of 26 November, media report 2 people injured and damage to some buildings.

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