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Green Earthquake alert in United States on 10/08/2012 18:37 UTC
GDACS Event Report - Summary

Summary

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

Updated: this report is based on update number 4.

  • Earthquake magnitude 6.2M and depth 12.9km
  • on 10/08/2012 18:37 UTC
  • No people within 100km

References

Known identifiers for this event: usb000buag (neicid)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 464 | About casualties: 23 | Last hour: 0

Studie entdeckt Mutationen bei Schmetterlingen aus Fukushima
Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:48:00 +0200   AbendBlatt (de)

Im März 2011 war es in Fukushima zur Reaktorkatastrophe gekommen. Die Folgen für die Umwelt zeichnen sich nun wohl auch an Schmetterlingen ab.

People and organisations: Fukushima Daiichi 

Fukushima-Unglück ließ Schmetterlinge mutieren
Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:38:00 +0200   bbv-net (de)

London/Tokio (dpa) - Die Reaktorkatastrophe von Fukushima hat offenbar Spuren bei den dort heimischen Schmetterlingen hinterlassen. Forscher entdeckten noch in der dritten Generation Mutationen bei einer Art, die sie im Umfeld des Unglücksorts gesammelt hatten.

People and organisations: Fukushima Daiichi 

Kuroiwa recomienda “jugar con factor sorpresa” en simulacros de sismo
Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:27:00 +0200   ElComercio (es)

Eso permitirá medir mejor la reacción de la población, dijo a *El Comercio* el "especialista":http://elcomercio.pe/tag/257642/julio-kuroiwa en gestión del riesgo de desastres

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product. The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product. The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: NEIC (4), EMM (1), JRC (20), (1), WMO (1), OCHA (1), INGV (1),

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