Overall Green Earthquake in Venezuela on 28 Dec 2013 09:17 UTC

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M 4.9 in Venezuela on 28 Dec 2013 09:17 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 1021527
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	93.85 Km
Lat/Lon:	10.5652 , -62.4941
Event Date:	28 Dec 2013 09:17 UTC 28 Dec 2013 04:47 Local
Exposed Population:	430366 people within 100km
Inserted at:	28 Dec 2013 09:41 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	-0.9		-0.9
	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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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http://issuu.com/elinformador.com.ve/docs/el_informador_–28-12-2013 12/28/2013 5:52:00 AM.

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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