Overall Green Earthquake alert in Central Alaska on 27 Sep 2014 03:53 UTC

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M 4.9 in Central Alaska on 27 Sep 2014 03:53 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 1040507
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	41.9 Km
Lat/Lon:	62 , -149.85
Event Date:	27 Sep 2014 03:53 UTC 26 Sep 2014 19:53 Local
Exposed Population:	353816 people within 100km
Inserted at:	27 Sep 2014 05:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0
	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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