Overall Green Earthquake alert in China on 19 Feb 2013 02:47 UTC

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M 4.9 in China on 19 Feb 2013 02:47 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 122802
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	9.6 Km
Lat/Lon:	27.1738 , 103.014
Event Date:	19 Feb 2013 02:47 UTC 19 Feb 2013 10:47 Local
Exposed Population:	4740000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	19 Feb 2013 03:05 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.5		0.5
usc000f9z8	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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