M 6.2 in United States on 10 Aug 2012 18:37 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 118733
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 12.9 Km
Lat/Lon: 52.6583 , -167.425
Event Date: 10 Aug 2012 18:37 UTC
10 Aug 2012 07:37 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Aug 2012 17:07 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
usb000buag 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), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),