Overall Green Earthquake in China on 17 Jun 2012 09:01 UTC

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M 5 in China on 17 Jun 2012 09:01 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 117588
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.0M
Depth:	Km
Lat/Lon:	23.6725 , 121.578
Event Date:	17 Jun 2012 09:01 UTC 17 Jun 2012 17:01 Local
Exposed Population:	1140000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	17 Jun 2012 09:24 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.5		0.5
usb000ahqd	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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