M 5.8 in Myanmar on 11 Nov 2012 10:54 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 120800
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 9.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 22.7574 , 95.9014
Event Date: 11 Nov 2012 10:54 UTC
11 Nov 2012 17:24 Local
Exposed Population:
4609734 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Nov 2012 11:26 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usc000dqvg 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 613 | About casualties: 190 | Last hour: 0

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FUKUSHIMA, Japan - A group of 13,000 people across Japan on Thursday filed a criminal complaint against 33 senior offic...
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A Christchurch man threatened to douse himself in petrol and set himself on fire in Hagley Park in a last-ditch effort to resolve an insurance dispute over his quake-damaged house.The incident earlier this year has raised concerns...

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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),