Overall Green Earthquake alert in Iran on 10 Apr 2013 19:22 UTC

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M 4.9 in Iran on 10 Apr 2013 19:22 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 123874
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	28.3 , 51.82
Event Date:	10 Apr 2013 19:22 UTC 10 Apr 2013 23:52 Local
Exposed Population:	400000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	11 Apr 2013 06:47 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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Latest media headlines

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