Overall Green Earthquake in Iran on 11 Aug 2012 14:25 UTC

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M 4.5 in Iran on 11 Aug 2012 14:25 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 118769
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	5 Km
Lat/Lon:	38.41 , 46.9
Event Date:	11 Aug 2012 14:25 UTC 11 Aug 2012 18:55 Local
Exposed Population:	2540000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	11 Aug 2012 15:42 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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