M 6.4 in Indonesia on 25 Jul 2012 00:27 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 118303
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.4M
Depth: 22 Km
Lat/Lon: 2.6568 , 96.1256
Event Date: 25 Jul 2012 00:27 UTC
25 Jul 2012 07:27 Local
Exposed Population:
About 95773 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Jul 2012 01:23 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
usb000bfha 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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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 (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),