Overall Green Earthquake alert in United States on 27 Mar 2016 18:27 UTC

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M 4.7 in United States on 27 Mar 2016 18:27 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 1083256
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	34.98 Km
Lat/Lon:	52.308 , -168.8629
Event Date:	27 Mar 2016 18:27 UTC 27 Mar 2016 07:27 Local
Exposed Population:	Few people within 100km
Inserted at:	27 Mar 2016 19:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	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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La compañía Tepco, gestora de la central nuclear de Fukushima, gravemente dañada por un tsunami en 2011, anunció este jueves haber empezado a congelar el suelo de una cavidad subterránea para frenar el escape de agua radiactiva. "Hemos empe

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Empezaron a congelar el suelo de Fukushima. El objetivo es evitar que el agua de una montaña cercana penetre en el subsuelo de la central y cree grandes cantidades de líquido radiactivo, que luego hay que bombear, descontaminar y almacenar.

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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