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 4.7M and depth 5km
• on 11/08/2012 13:14 UTC
• 2580000 people within 100km

Known identifiers for this event: usb000buq4 (neicid)

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Articles: 1356 | About casualties: 306 | Last hour: 0

Environnement : les pays d’Asie particulièrement vulnérables aux catastrophes naturelles
Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:01:00 +0200   lalsace (fr)

Les pays les plus vulnérables aux catastrophes naturelles sont les pays d’Asie, selon un classement publié mercredi, qui met en évidence leur état de préparation limité et leur capacité faible à réagir.

People and organisations:

Turkish Red Crescent distributes relief equipment in quake-hit Iran
Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:58:00 +0200   aa-en (en)

Turkish aid organization Turk Kizilayi has begun distributing relief equipment to victims of a devastating earthquake that recently hit Iran. ANKARA (AA) - August 15, 2012 - Turkish aid organization Turk Kizilayi (Red Crescent) has begun distributing relief equipment to victims of a devastating that recently hit Iran.

People and organisations: Red Crescent 

Crocs and Humans Clash in Shrinking Space
Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:55:00 +0200   ipsnews (en)

This is the first of a two-part series on the human-animal conflict over space in the Andaman group of islands in India.

People and organisations: Zubair Ahmed 

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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