Overall Green Earthquake alert in Iran on 26 Jan 2013 15:10 UTC

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M 4.6 in Iran on 26 Jan 2013 15:10 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 122145
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	2 Km
Lat/Lon:	38.4 , 46.94
Event Date:	26 Jan 2013 15:10 UTC 26 Jan 2013 18:40 Local
Exposed Population:	2410000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	26 Jan 2013 15:40 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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