Overall Green Earthquake alert in Iceland on 29 May 2008 15:46 UTC

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M 6.3 in Iceland on 29 May 2008 15:46 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 40160
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.3M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	63.9922 , -21.0135
Event Date:	29 May 2008 15:46 UTC 29 May 2008 15:46 Local
Exposed Population:	146196 people within 100km
Inserted at:	30 May 2008 15:47 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.4		0.4
	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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