Overall Orange Earthquake alert in Myanmar on 11 Nov 2012 01:12 UTC

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M 6.8 in Myanmar on 11 Nov 2012 01:12 UTC

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	EQ 120783
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.8M
Glide number:	EQ-2012-000190-MMR
Depth:	9.8 Km
Lat/Lon:	23.014 , 95.8832
Event Date:	11 Nov 2012 01:12 UTC 11 Nov 2012 07:42 Local
Exposed Population:	120000 people in MMI 3010000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	02 Feb 2017 13:11 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	1.5		1.5
usc000dqqw	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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Latest media headlines

Myanmar: Sagaing Earthquake and Population Density by Township: 11 Nov.. 11/14/2012 12:29:00 PM.

Sagaing Earthquake and Population Density by Township: 11 Nov 2012 UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit ....

16 people killed, 71 injured in N. Myanmar earthquake: official 11/14/2012 10:08:00 AM.

YANGON, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- At least 16 people were killed and 71 others injured in a strong earthquake which jolted the northern part of Myanmar on Sunday, an official of Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement told Xinhua Wedn

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Earthquake Toll Raised to 26; Aftershock Hits Naypyidaw 11/14/2012 7:26:00 AM.

At least 38 people are dead or missing in the wake of an earthquake that struck northern Burma on Sunday, while there were no reported injuries following another temblor that hit the capital Naypyidaw on Tuesday. At least 26 people were kil

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Myanmar invites donations for quake repairs 11/14/2012 5:28:00 AM.

YANGON, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar authorities are inviting donations from individual well-wishers, civil societies, local and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for repairing constructions damaged in the 6.8-magnitude ear

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),

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