M 4.7 in Myanmar on 20 Dec 2012 05:56 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 121531
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 9.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 22.9248 , 96.1035
Event Date: 20 Dec 2012 05:56 UTC
20 Dec 2012 12:26 Local
Exposed Population:
2670000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Dec 2012 06:17 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usc000ed7b 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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Meteo assessment
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 445 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

L'après Evan: l'économie dans l'oeil du cycloneMon, 24 Dec 2012 05:55:00 +0100.

Les économies samoane, et dans une moindre mesure, fidjienne auront du mal à se remettre du récent cyclone.
L’empereur fête ses 79 ansMon, 24 Dec 2012 05:32:00 +0100.

L’empereur du Japon, Akihito, qui célébrait dimanche ses 79 ans, a déclaré prier pour les victimes de la catastrophe du 11 mars 2011.
In Aiding Quake-Battered Haiti, Lofty Hopes and Hard TruthsMon, 24 Dec 2012 05:15:00 +0100.

Despite billions of dollars spent — and billions more allocated for Haiti but unspent — rebuilding has barely begun and 357,785 Haitians still languish in 496 tent camps.
Disaster base hospitals in Japan fear floodingMon, 24 Dec 2012 04:41:00 +0100.

Among designated disaster base hospitals along the Pacific and Inland Sea coasts in Japan, 34 hospitals fear their facilities may be flooded by a tsunami if the predicted magnitude-9 earthquake ...

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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),