Overall Green Earthquake alert in United States on 26 Aug 2012 19:33 UTC

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M 4.9 in United States on 26 Aug 2012 19:33 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 119032
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	14.5 Km
Lat/Lon:	33.0208 , -115.554
Event Date:	26 Aug 2012 19:33 UTC 26 Aug 2012 12:33 Local
Exposed Population:	1370000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	26 Aug 2012 21:43 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.5		0.5
ci15199689	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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