Overall Green Earthquake alert in Georgia on 14 Oct 2012 10:13 UTC

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M 5.3 in Georgia on 14 Oct 2012 10:13 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 120195
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	41.861 , 46.3622
Event Date:	14 Oct 2012 10:13 UTC 14 Oct 2012 14:13 Local
Exposed Population:	1020000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	14 Oct 2012 10:52 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.5		0.5
usb000d5nf	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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