Overall Green Earthquake alert in Greece on 24 Oct 2014 23:43 UTC

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M 5.3 in Greece on 24 Oct 2014 23:43 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 1042028
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	1 Km
Lat/Lon:	38.92 , 21.13
Event Date:	24 Oct 2014 23:43 UTC 25 Oct 2014 02:43 Local
Exposed Population:	1090118 people within 100km
Inserted at:	25 Oct 2014 07:03 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
EMSC	0.3		0.3
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=405605	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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