Overall Green Earthquake alert in Kyrgyzstan on 20 Nov 2015 04:45 UTC

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M 4.9 in Kyrgyzstan on 20 Nov 2015 04:45 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 1072917
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	40.79 Km
Lat/Lon:	40.3744 , 73.2026
Event Date:	20 Nov 2015 04:45 UTC 20 Nov 2015 10:45 Local
Exposed Population:	3883756 people within 100km
Inserted at:	20 Nov 2015 05:09 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.2		0.2
	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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