Overall Green Earthquake alert in Algeria on 28 Nov 2012 23:50 UTC

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M 4.5 in Algeria on 28 Nov 2012 23:50 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 121142
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	36.89 , 5.19
Event Date:	28 Nov 2012 23:50 UTC 29 Nov 2012 00:50 Local
Exposed Population:	3880000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	29 Nov 2012 08:11 UTC

GDACS Score

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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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