Overall Green Earthquake alert in United States on 11 Apr 2016 20:10 UTC

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M 5.6 in United States on 11 Apr 2016 20:10 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 1084149
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.6M
Depth:	21.46 Km
Lat/Lon:	51.8428 , 176.6228
Event Date:	11 Apr 2016 20:10 UTC 12 Apr 2016 08:10 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	11 Apr 2016 23:39 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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