Overall Green Earthquake alert in Mexico on 20 Apr 2013 05:05 UTC

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M 4.6 in Mexico on 20 Apr 2013 05:05 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 124210
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	9.7 Km
Lat/Lon:	16.159 , -98.3146
Event Date:	20 Apr 2013 05:05 UTC 20 Apr 2013 00:05 Local
Exposed Population:	570000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	20 Apr 2013 05:30 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.5		0.5
usb000gcgz	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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