Overall Green Earthquake in United States on 09 Aug 2017 05:48 UTC

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M 5.1 in United States on 09 Aug 2017 05:48 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 1118872
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.1M
Depth:	52 Km
Lat/Lon:	52.593 , -169.153
Event Date:	09 Aug 2017 05:48 UTC 08 Aug 2017 21:48 Local
Exposed Population:	Few people within 100km
Inserted at:	09 Aug 2017 05:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	2.2 (United States)

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NTWC	0		0
at00ouelgt	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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