Overall Green Earthquake alert in Nicaragua on 14 Apr 2014 05:07 UTC

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M 5.1 in Nicaragua on 14 Apr 2014 05:07 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 1029700
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.1M
Depth:	14.81 Km
Lat/Lon:	12.1764 , -86.2965
Event Date:	14 Apr 2014 05:07 UTC 13 Apr 2014 23:07 Local
Exposed Population:	3250905 people within 100km
Inserted at:	14 Apr 2014 05:27 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.4		0.4
	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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