Overall Orange Earthquake alert in Afghanistan on 24 Apr 2013 09:25 UTC

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M 5.6 in Afghanistan on 24 Apr 2013 09:25 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 124287
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.6M
Depth:	62.1 Km
Lat/Lon:	34.5167 , 70.2072
Event Date:	24 Apr 2013 09:25 UTC 24 Apr 2013 13:55 Local
Exposed Population:	3820000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	02 Feb 2017 13:13 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	2		2
usb000geu9	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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