Overall Green Earthquake alert in Portugal on 24 Jun 2016 23:16 UTC

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M 4.7 in Portugal on 24 Jun 2016 23:16 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 1088751
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	36.8727 , -24.0075
Event Date:	24 Jun 2016 23:16 UTC 24 Jun 2016 21:16 Local
Exposed Population:	About 1572 people within 100km
Inserted at:	25 Jun 2016 00:15 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us200066nq	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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