Overall Green Earthquake alert in Afghanistan-Tajikistan Bord Reg. on 22 Mar 2016 20:14 UTC

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M 4.5 in Afghanistan-Tajikistan Bord Reg. on 22 Mar 2016 20:14 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 1082999
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	95.23 Km
Lat/Lon:	36.5096 , 71.1374
Event Date:	22 Mar 2016 20:14 UTC 23 Mar 2016 00:44 Local
Exposed Population:	793404 people within 100km
Inserted at:	22 Mar 2016 21:06 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		0
	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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