M 6 in Australia on 22 Jun 2012 04:31 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 117693
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 9.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -54.3017 , 158.727
Event Date: 22 Jun 2012 04:31 UTC
22 Jun 2012 15:31 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Jun 2012 04:52 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
usb000amdx 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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),