Overall Green Earthquake in Iran on 24 Jul 2012 06:50 UTC

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M 5.2 in Iran on 24 Jul 2012 06:50 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 118280
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.2M
Depth:	2 Km
Lat/Lon:	31.75 , 50.96
Event Date:	24 Jul 2012 06:50 UTC 24 Jul 2012 11:20 Local
Exposed Population:	1500000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	24 Jul 2012 12:03 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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