Overall Green Earthquake in Türkiye on 24 Jun 2012 20:07 UTC

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M 4.9 in Türkiye on 24 Jun 2012 20:07 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 117738
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	5 Km
Lat/Lon:	38.73 , 43.67
Event Date:	24 Jun 2012 20:07 UTC 24 Jun 2012 23:07 Local
Exposed Population:	1400000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	24 Jun 2012 20:24 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
EMSC	0.5		0.5
	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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