Overall Green Earthquake alert in Andaman Islands, India Region on 17 Nov 2019 23:05 UTC

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M 5.1 in Andaman Islands, India Region on 17 Nov 2019 23:05 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 1194057
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.1M
Depth:	53.39 Km
Lat/Lon:	11.2863 , 92.9571
Event Date:	17 Nov 2019 23:05 UTC 18 Nov 2019 05:05 Local
Exposed Population:	240000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	17 Nov 2019 23:26 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.6 (India)

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000699n	Scaled population (vector)	5.56
	C1 earthquake	0.74
	C2 earthquake	-0.08
	Country Vulnerability	-0.39
	INFORM_normalised	0.94

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Articles: 4 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Untapping hidden resources of the mystifying AndamanSun, 17 Nov 2019 04:19:00 +0100.

By NEW DELHI: In his quest to reach out to the last man in society as an administrator, Dr Rehan Raza travelled through the picturesque and remote islets of the Andaman and Nicobar group of islands. During his posting in the union territory

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4.3 magnitude earthquake strikes Nicobar IslandsTue, 22 Oct 2019 10:43:00 +0200.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on the Richter scale jolted Nicobar islands region on Tuesday, October 22. The quake occurred at around 6:39 am. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the epicentre of the earthquake was regi

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4.3 magnitude earthquake jolts Nicobar IslandsTue, 22 Oct 2019 08:13:00 +0200.

According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the quake occurred at around 6:39 am and the epicentre of the earthquake was registered at a deep depth of 180 kilometres. No loss of life and property has been reported yet. NICOBAR

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4.3 magnitude earthquake jolts Nicobar IslandsTue, 22 Oct 2019 06:50:00 +0200.

NICOBAR (ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR): An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 jolted Nicobar Islands region on Tuesday. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the quake occurred at around 6:39 am and the epicentre of the earthquake was reg

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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