M 4.6 in Congo, DRC on 14 Oct 2012 16:25 UTC

Event summary

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

GDACS ID EQ 120218
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -1.2021 , 26.7783
Event Date: 14 Oct 2012 16:25 UTC
14 Oct 2012 18:25 Local
Exposed Population:
270000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Oct 2012 19:12 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us2012gsa8 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),