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Green Earthquake alert in Papua New Guinea on 28/07/2012 20:03 UTC
GDACS Event Report - Summary

Summary

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This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the Magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

  • Earthquake magnitude 6.5M and depth 41.2km
  • on 28/07/2012 20:03 UTC
  • About 65000 people within 100km

References

Known identifiers for this event: usb000bid9 (neicid)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 152 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

L’Emilia s’è data da fare Ora tocca all’Italia
Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:01:00 +0200   avvenire (it)

A Finale Emilia, il capo dell’ufficio tecnico discute le pratiche di agibilità sotto un gazebo. Dentro, accalcati in un magazzino che dovrebbe essere il Municipio, i suoi colleghi smistano quelle dell’autonoma sistemazione. Più o meno la stessa scena si presenta a Mirandola, Cavezzo, San Felice sul Panaro.

People and organisations: Roberto Oreficini  Vasco Errani  Caritas  Andrea Costa 

La producción de vehículos en Japón crece un 53 por ciento en la primera mitad de 2012
Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:57:00 +0200   es-noticias (es)

Tokio, 30 jul (EFE).- La producción de automóviles, camiones y autobuses en Japón se incrementó un 53 % durante la primera mitad del año respecto al mismo periodo de 2011, informó hoy la Asociación nipona de Fabricantes de Automóviles (JAMA).

People and organisations:

Central nuclear que resistiu ao tsunami inspecionada
Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:37:00 +0200   DiariodeNoticias (pt)

Uma equipa da Agência Internacional de Energia Atómica (AIEA) começou hoje a inspecionar a central nuclear japonesa de Onagawa, situada numa das zonas afetadas pelo sismo e tsunami de 2011 e que resistiu...

People and organisations: Fukushima Daiichi 

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product. The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: NEIC (4), EMM (1), JRC (23), (1), OCHA (1), INGV (1),

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