Overall Green Earthquake alert in Northern Molucca Sea on 24 Jul 2022 06:46 UTC

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M 5.3 in Northern Molucca Sea on 24 Jul 2022 06:46 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 1331839
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	17.11 Km
Lat/Lon:	0.4873 , 126.3448
Event Date:	24 Jul 2022 06:46 UTC 24 Jul 2022 15:46 Local
Exposed Population:	2 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at:	25 Jul 2022 13:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000ht2x	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	-0.59
	C2 shakemap	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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