Overall Green Earthquake alert in Mexico on 22 Apr 2013 01:16 UTC

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M 5.9 in Mexico on 22 Apr 2013 01:16 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 124253
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.9M
Depth:	28.5 Km
Lat/Lon:	18.1585 , -102.08
Event Date:	22 Apr 2013 01:16 UTC 21 Apr 2013 20:16 Local
Exposed Population:	511051 people within 100km
Inserted at:	22 Apr 2013 01:58 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.5		0.5
usb000gda9	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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