Overall Green Earthquake in Greece on 18 Oct 2005 15:26 UTC

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M 5.5 in Greece on 18 Oct 2005 15:26 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 14398
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.5M
Depth:	0 Km
Lat/Lon:	37.23 , 20.3
Event Date:	18 Oct 2005 15:26 UTC 18 Oct 2005 16:26 Local
Exposed Population:	about 34000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	19 Oct 2005 10:59 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
RENASS	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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