Overall Green Earthquake alert in Bulgaria on 26 Nov 2017 19:01 UTC

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M 4.6 in Bulgaria on 26 Nov 2017 19:01 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 1127284
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	11.22 Km
Lat/Lon:	42.7243 , 24.2995
Event Date:	26 Nov 2017 19:01 UTC 26 Nov 2017 21:01 Local
Exposed Population:	1550000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	26 Nov 2017 22:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	3.1 (Bulgaria)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us2000bukf	Scaled population (vector)	5.93
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0.76

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