Overall Green Earthquake alert in Afghanistan on 24 Jun 2013 04:15 UTC

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M 4.6 in Afghanistan on 24 Jun 2013 04:15 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 1000273
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	99.6 Km
Lat/Lon:	35.8872 , 70.8865
Event Date:	24 Jun 2013 04:15 UTC 24 Jun 2013 08:45 Local
Exposed Population:	551232 people within 100km
Inserted at:	24 Jun 2013 06:38 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	-0.9		-0.9
	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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Latest media headlines

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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