Overall Green Earthquake alert in China on 22 Apr 2013 21:54 UTC

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M 4.8 in China on 22 Apr 2013 21:54 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 124271
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	30.2425 , 103.182
Event Date:	22 Apr 2013 21:54 UTC 23 Apr 2013 05:54 Local
Exposed Population:	12740000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	22 Apr 2013 22:41 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.5		0.5
usb000gdve	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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Latest media headlines

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