Overall Red Earthquake alert in Myanmar on 24 Aug 2016 10:34 UTC

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M 6.8 in Myanmar on 24 Aug 2016 10:34 UTC

Event summary

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

GDACS ID	EQ 1092506
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.8M
Depth:	84.07 Km
Lat/Lon:	20.9192 , 94.5789
Event Date:	24 Aug 2016 10:34 UTC 24 Aug 2016 17:04 Local
Exposed Population:	1160000 people in MMI 3780000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	24 Aug 2016 10:54 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	2.3		2.3
us10006gbf	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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),

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