Overall Green Earthquake alert in Greece on 20 Nov 2015 09:33 UTC

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M 4.8 in Greece on 20 Nov 2015 09:33 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 1072955
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	38.68 , 20.43
Event Date:	20 Nov 2015 09:33 UTC 20 Nov 2015 11:33 Local
Exposed Population:	456900 people within 100km
Inserted at:	20 Nov 2015 14:57 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
EMSC	0.1		0.1
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=471260	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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