Overall Green Earthquake alert in Russia on 10 Dec 2012 16:56 UTC

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M 4.8 in Russia on 10 Dec 2012 16:56 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 121389
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	Km
Lat/Lon:	44.99 , 37.57
Event Date:	10 Dec 2012 16:56 UTC 10 Dec 2012 20:56 Local
Exposed Population:	1350000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	11 Dec 2012 07:42 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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