Overall Green Earthquake alert in Greece on 17 Nov 2015 08:33 UTC

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M 5.3 in Greece on 17 Nov 2015 08:33 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 1072561
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	2 Km
Lat/Lon:	38.74 , 20.4
Event Date:	17 Nov 2015 08:33 UTC 17 Nov 2015 10:33 Local
Exposed Population:	455215 people within 100km
Inserted at:	17 Nov 2015 10:15 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
EMSC	0.3		0.3
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=470409	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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