M 5.1 in North Korea on 12 Feb 2013 02:57 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 122640
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 0 Km
Lat/Lon: 41.3075 , 129.076
Event Date: 12 Feb 2013 02:57 UTC
12 Feb 2013 11:57 Local
Exposed Population:
2340000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Feb 2013 20:47 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usc000f5t0 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 367 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

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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 (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),