Overall Green Earthquake alert in Iran on 24 Jan 2013 04:51 UTC

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M 4.7 in Iran on 24 Jan 2013 04:51 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 122106
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	Km
Lat/Lon:	27.88 , 56.59
Event Date:	24 Jan 2013 04:51 UTC 24 Jan 2013 08:21 Local
Exposed Population:	920000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	24 Jan 2013 08:24 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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