Overall Green Earthquake alert in China on 24 Jun 2012 07:59 UTC

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M 5.5 in China on 24 Jun 2012 07:59 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 117729
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.5M
Glide number:	EQ-2012-000103-CHN
Depth:	9 Km
Lat/Lon:	27.7669 , 100.768
Event Date:	24 Jun 2012 07:59 UTC 24 Jun 2012 15:59 Local
Exposed Population:	About 44000 people in MMI 810000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	21 Feb 2018 10:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	3.6 (China)

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.4		0.4
usp000jn65	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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