Overall Green Earthquake alert in Chagos Archipelago Region on 05 Jan 2023 18:56 UTC

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M 4.9 in Chagos Archipelago Region on 05 Jan 2023 18:56 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 1353223
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.4632 , 68.5538
Event Date:	05 Jan 2023 18:56 UTC 05 Jan 2023 23:56 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at:	05 Jan 2023 19:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000j2dw	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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