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 2.

• Earthquake magnitude 6.3M and depth 162.7km
• on 06/07/2012 02:28 UTC
• About 48000 people within 100km

Known identifiers for this event: usb000azes (neicid)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 386 | About casualties: 29 | Last hour: 0

Japanese reactor back to full power after nuke shutdown
Tue, 10 Jul 2012 02:10:00 +0200   dailytimesPK (en)

TOKYO: A nuclear reactor in western Japan began full operations Monday, the first restart since the country shut down its atomic stations in the wake of last year’s crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Kansai Electric Power Co (KEPCO), operator of the Oi power plant in the nation’s industrial....

People and organisations: American Electric Power Co  Fukushima Daiichi  Tokyo Electric Power  Tokyo Electric Power  Kansai Electric  Kansai Electric  Yoshihiko Noda 

01:39 Asit miktarı, mercan kayalıklarını tehdit ediyor
Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:20:00 +0200   netgazete (tr)

Okyanuslardaki asit miktarının, ''denizin osteoporozu'' gibi etki ederek, mercan kayalıklarını tehdit ettiği bildirildi. Uzmanlar, okyanuslarda artan asit seviyesinin mercan kayalıkları için büyük tehdit oluşturduğunu, bu sorunun gıda güvenliğinden turizm sektörüne kadar birçok alanı etkilediğini ve....

People and organisations: Jane Lubchenco 

Aid to riot-hit shrines against statute: Gujarat
Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:02:00 +0200   indiatimes (en)

The Narendra Modi government on Monday said compensation to religious structures damaged in the 2002 riots would be against the tenets of secular governance and justified its stand in the Supreme Court by saying it had given no grant for repair of such structures damaged by the 2001 earthquake.

People and organisations: Supreme Court  Narendra Modi 

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.

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), DesInventar (1),

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