Overall Green Earthquake alert in China on 23 Feb 2016 00:33 UTC

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M 5.2 in China on 23 Feb 2016 00:33 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 1081151
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.2M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	32.0762 , 94.9579
Event Date:	23 Feb 2016 00:33 UTC 23 Feb 2016 08:33 Local
Exposed Population:	152674 people within 100km
Inserted at:	23 Feb 2016 00:57 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0.1
	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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