Overall Green Earthquake in Indonesia on 18 Aug 2012 09:41 UTC

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M 6.3 in Indonesia on 18 Aug 2012 09:41 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 118937
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.3M
Glide number:	EQ-2012-000144-IDN
Depth:	19.9 Km
Lat/Lon:	-1.3431 , 120.103
Event Date:	18 Aug 2012 09:41 UTC 18 Aug 2012 17:41 Local
Exposed Population:	About 2000 people in MMI 1400000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	02 Feb 2017 13:10 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.5		0.5
usc000c2hh	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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