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Green Earthquake alert in Mexico on 01/07/2012 03:25 UTC
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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 7.

  • Earthquake magnitude 4.6M and depth 3.2km
  • on 01/07/2012 03:25 UTC
  • 1340000 people within 100km

References

Known identifiers for this event: ci11129826 (neicid)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 306 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

$6.4m to detect early disaster in Fiji: Japan
Thu, 05 Jul 2012 03:11:00 +0200   pina (en)

The Government of Japan will be providing $6.4 million worth of equipments for disaster risk management in the country through the Fiji Meteorological Services. This was revealed at the official signing ceremony of agreement on minutes of discussion on the preparatory survey on the project for....

People and organisations: Pacific Island  Viti Levu  Vanua Levu 

Leaders' Salary Gap Widens
Thu, 05 Jul 2012 02:12:00 +0200   wsj-en (en)

Already the best-paid elected leader of a Group of 20 nation, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard just got another raise—putting her salary 25% ahead of Barack Obama's and about twice David Cameron's.

People and organisations: Glenn Stevens  Barack Obama  Yoshihiko Noda  David Cameron  François Hollande  Julia Gillard  Lee Hsien Loong  Lee Hsien Loong  Reserve Bank  Gary Gray  Nick Xenophon  Tony Abbott 

Japan Diet to publish Fukushima disaster probe
Thu, 05 Jul 2012 01:13:00 +0200   channelnewsasia (en)

TOKYO: A Japanese parliament probe into the nuclear disaster at Fukushima is expected to say the then prime minister fanned chaos in the opening days of the crisis when it publishes its final report Thursday.

People and organisations: Fukushima Daiichi  Naoto Kan  Tokyo Electric Power  Tokyo Electric Power 

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