M 5.6 in India on 14 Jul 2012 19:55 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 118089
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 6.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 25.4369 , 94.4957
Event Date: 14 Jul 2012 19:55 UTC
15 Jul 2012 01:25 Local
Exposed Population:
2722576 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Jul 2012 20:11 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 1.1 1.1
usb000b6gc 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),