M 4.5 in Pakistan on 19 Nov 2012 22:38 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 120972
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.6746 , 68.0458
Event Date: 19 Nov 2012 22:38 UTC
20 Nov 2012 03:38 Local
Exposed Population:
800000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Nov 2012 23:54 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us2012ida2 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

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A Tokyo resident on facing his fear and living with earthquakesFri, 23 Nov 2012 21:27:00 +0100.

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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),