Overall Green Earthquake alert in Greece on 22 Nov 2017 22:37 UTC

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M 4.5 in Greece on 22 Nov 2017 22:37 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 1127169
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	6 Km
Lat/Lon:	40.51 , 22.52
Event Date:	22 Nov 2017 22:37 UTC 23 Nov 2017 00:37 Local
Exposed Population:	2030000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	22 Nov 2017 23:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	3.7 (The Republic of North Macedonia)
INFORM Coping capacity list:	The Republic of North Macedonia= 3.7; Bulgaria= 3.1; Greece= 2.5

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
EMSC	0.1		0.1
631862	Scaled population (vector)	6.44
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0.83

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