M 5.1 in Pacific-Antarctic Ridge on 08 Apr 2016 21:00 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 1083984
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -57.8573 , -140.0187
Event Date: 08 Apr 2016 21:00 UTC
08 Apr 2016 12:00 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Apr 2016 22:15 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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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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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),