Overall Green Earthquake alert in Italy on 16 Feb 2013 21:16 UTC

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M 4.9 in Italy on 16 Feb 2013 21:16 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 122744
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	Km
Lat/Lon:	41.71 , 13.58
Event Date:	16 Feb 2013 21:16 UTC 16 Feb 2013 22:16 Local
Exposed Population:	6170000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	17 Feb 2013 08:11 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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