Overall Orange Earthquake alert in Afghanistan on 22 Jan 2013 15:09 UTC

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M 5.2 in Afghanistan on 22 Jan 2013 15:09 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 122083
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.2M
Depth:	51.6 Km
Lat/Lon:	36.3227 , 68.8486
Event Date:	22 Jan 2013 15:09 UTC 22 Jan 2013 19:39 Local
Exposed Population:	2723238 people within 100km
Inserted at:	22 Jan 2013 16:34 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	1.3		1.3
usb000esq0	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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