M 6.3 in China on 29 Jun 2012 21:07 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 117826
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 9.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 43.4435 , 84.7253
Event Date: 29 Jun 2012 21:07 UTC
30 Jun 2012 05:07 Local
Exposed Population:
124939 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Jun 2012 21:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
usb000aue4 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.
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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),