Overall Green Earthquake alert in Uganda on 13 Feb 2022 16:28 UTC

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M 4.7 in Uganda on 13 Feb 2022 16:28 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 1309958
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	0.5647 , 30.2209
Event Date:	13 Feb 2022 16:28 UTC 13 Feb 2022 19:28 Local
Exposed Population:	5.3 million in 100km
Inserted at:	17 Feb 2022 22:29 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	8 (Democratic Republic of Congo)
INFORM Coping capacity list:	Democratic Republic of Congo= 8; Uganda= 6.9

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000gkkh	Scaled population (vector)	6.91
	C1 earthquake	1.83
	C2 earthquake	-2.02
	Country Vulnerability	-0.8
	INFORM_normalised	1.35

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