M 6.2 in Canada on 30 Oct 2012 02:49 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 120578
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 9.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 52.3236 , -131.908
Event Date: 30 Oct 2012 02:49 UTC
29 Oct 2012 19:49 Local
Exposed Population:
About 225 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Oct 2012 03:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
usb000dh4i Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

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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),