Overall Green Earthquake in United States on 19 Jun 2012 15:56 UTC

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M 6 in United States on 19 Jun 2012 15:56 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 117653
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.0M
Depth:	14 Km
Lat/Lon:	53.3643 , 171.593
Event Date:	19 Jun 2012 15:56 UTC 20 Jun 2012 02:56 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	19 Jun 2012 21:51 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
usb000ajln	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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