M 4.6 in Algeria on 15 Jul 2012 02:05 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 118093
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 36 , 1.12
Event Date: 15 Jul 2012 02:05 UTC
15 Jul 2012 03:05 Local
Exposed Population:
3940000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Jul 2012 02:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.5 0.5
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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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 (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),