Overall Green Earthquake alert in Afghanistan on 23 Nov 2015 16:58 UTC

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M 4.7 in Afghanistan on 23 Nov 2015 16:58 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 1073319
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	29.9157 , 63.8056
Event Date:	23 Nov 2015 16:58 UTC 23 Nov 2015 21:28 Local
Exposed Population:	About 89868 people within 100km
Inserted at:	23 Nov 2015 18:18 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	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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