Overall Green Earthquake alert in Iran on 23 Dec 2012 06:38 UTC

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M 4.9 in Iran on 23 Dec 2012 06:38 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 121567
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	5 Km
Lat/Lon:	38.53 , 44.87
Event Date:	23 Dec 2012 06:38 UTC 23 Dec 2012 10:08 Local
Exposed Population:	1540000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	23 Dec 2012 11:27 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
EMSC	0.5		0.5
	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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