Overall Green Earthquake alert in Morocco on 23 Dec 2021 01:54 UTC

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M 4.8 in Morocco on 23 Dec 2021 01:54 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 1302999
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	35.1453 , -3.8904
Event Date:	23 Dec 2021 01:54 UTC 23 Dec 2021 02:54 Local
Exposed Population:	1.9 million in 100km
Inserted at:	24 Dec 2021 03:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	5 (Morocco)
INFORM Coping capacity list:	Morocco= 5; Spain= 1.8

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.9		0.9
us6000geqa	Scaled population (vector)	6.46
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0.83
	INFORM_normalised	0.99

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