M 5.6 in Myanmar on 11 Nov 2012 18:19 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 120803
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.2077 , 95.9815
Event Date: 11 Nov 2012 18:19 UTC
12 Nov 2012 00:49 Local
Exposed Population:
2492442 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Nov 2012 18:38 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usc000dqy4 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),