M 5.2 in China on 14 Jun 2012 16:15 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 117558
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 23.7223 , 121.552
Event Date: 14 Jun 2012 16:15 UTC
15 Jun 2012 00:15 Local
Exposed Population:
1690000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Jun 2012 16:47 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usb000afup Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),