Overall Green Earthquake alert in Greece on 18 Nov 2016 23:22 UTC

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M 4.9 in Greece on 18 Nov 2016 23:22 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 1098769
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	41.0326 , 22.7702
Event Date:	18 Nov 2016 23:22 UTC 19 Nov 2016 01:22 Local
Exposed Population:	2154391 people within 100km
Inserted at:	18 Nov 2016 23:28 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NOAIG	0		0
32F01028	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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