Overall Green Earthquake alert in Iceland on 19 Jul 2013 01:11 UTC

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M 6.5 in Iceland on 19 Jul 2013 01:11 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 1000554
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.5M
Depth:	8 Km
Lat/Lon:	66.25 , -16.73
Event Date:	19 Jul 2013 01:11 UTC 19 Jul 2013 01:11 Local
Exposed Population:	About 27000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	19 Jul 2013 03:19 UTC

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	Earthquake		Tsunami		GDACS score
EMSC	0		0.1		0.1
	Scaled population (vector)	n.a	Max wave scenario	0m
	C1 earthquake	n.a	Max wave realtime	0.18m
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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