Overall Green Earthquake alert in Bangladesh on 27 Jun 2016 00:27 UTC

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M 4.7 in Bangladesh on 27 Jun 2016 00:27 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 1088882
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	22.7264 , 92.0117
Event Date:	27 Jun 2016 00:27 UTC 27 Jun 2016 06:27 Local
Exposed Population:	14945515 people within 100km
Inserted at:	27 Jun 2016 01:03 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us2000672m	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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Lightning kills at least 93 as monsoon sweeps India The Telegraph 6/22/2016 10:25:00 PM.

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Floods maroon thousands 6/22/2016 8:29:00 PM.

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