M 4.6 in United States on 16 Oct 2012 23:12 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 120268
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 5 Km
Lat/Lon: 43.6107 , -70.6614
Event Date: 16 Oct 2012 23:12 UTC
16 Oct 2012 19:12 Local
Exposed Population:
1550000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Oct 2012 23:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usb000d75b 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 281 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

Manga artists back Tohoku with signature heroes projectSat, 20 Oct 2012 20:37:00 +0200.

Eight renowned manga artists will draw up new cartoons featuring heroes and heroines from their signature works and donate the royalties to Tohoku's reconstruction, one of them said. The "Heroes Comeback" project is the brainchild of cartoo
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Empress keeping eye on frail husbandSat, 20 Oct 2012 20:37:00 +0200.

On her 78th birthday Saturday, Empress Michiko assured she is keeping a close eye on Emperor Akihito's health, following his heart bypass surgery in February. "With regards to maintaining the health of his majesty and myself, from now on I
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'Only immigrants can save Japan'Sat, 20 Oct 2012 19:06:00 +0200.

Only a revolution can save it. What kind of revolution? Japan must become "a nation of immigrants." That's a hard sell in this notoriously closed country. Salesman-in-chief — surprisingly enough — is a retired Justice Ministry bureaucrat na
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Prestige, modelo para armarlaSat, 20 Oct 2012 18:32:00 +0200.

La izquierda ha utilizado y rentabilizado el Prestige como arma política. Todo un modelo a utilizar para desgastar y atacar a los Gobiernos del PP.

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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.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),