Overall Green Earthquake alert in Afghanistan on 21 Jun 2013 20:51 UTC

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M 4.8 in Afghanistan on 21 Jun 2013 20:51 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 1000251
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	49.9 Km
Lat/Lon:	36.9407 , 73.2061
Event Date:	21 Jun 2013 20:51 UTC 22 Jun 2013 01:21 Local
Exposed Population:	410656 people within 100km
Inserted at:	21 Jun 2013 23:14 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.3		0.3
	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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