Overall Green Earthquake alert in Iran on 27 Sep 2012 00:56 UTC

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M 4.5 in Iran on 27 Sep 2012 00:56 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 119895
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	Km
Lat/Lon:	38.36 , 46.73
Event Date:	27 Sep 2012 00:56 UTC 27 Sep 2012 04:26 Local
Exposed Population:	2590000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	27 Sep 2012 01:37 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
EMSC	0.5		0.5
	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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