Overall Green Earthquake in Indonesia on 27 Jun 2012 12:56 UTC

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M 5.2 in Indonesia on 27 Jun 2012 12:56 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 117803
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.2M
Depth:	Km
Lat/Lon:	-8.2758 , 119.852
Event Date:	27 Jun 2012 12:56 UTC 27 Jun 2012 20:56 Local
Exposed Population:	680000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	27 Jun 2012 13:18 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.5		0.5
usb000arp6	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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Latest media headlines

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Protesters block Japan nuclear restart 7/1/2012 12:38:00 PM.

Hundreds of protesters blocked a road outside the front gate of a nuclear power plant in western Japan ahead of the planned reactivation of one of its idled reactors Sunday.

Le Japon renoue avec le nucléaire aujourd'hui 7/1/2012 12:32:00 PM.

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