M 7 in Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 17 Jun 2015 12:51 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 1057854
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -35.362 , -17.3915
Event Date: 17 Jun 2015 12:51 UTC
17 Jun 2015 11:51 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jun 2015 13:55 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 212 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Vietnam to improve tsunami warning capabilitySun, 21 Jun 2015 11:00:00 +0200.

Competent agencies will be able warn of a tsunami two hours before it hits coastal provinces with the help of the tsunami warning system of 532 stations, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The tsunami warning st
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Philippines: Disaster council wants integration of DRR-CCA in school c ... Sun, 21 Jun 2015 09:39:00 +0200.

Oliver T. Baccay. TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan, June 18 (PIA) - - Members of the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC) here are pushing for the integration of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation (DRR
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Retraites : le Medef révise ses exigencesSun, 21 Jun 2015 09:10:00 +0200.

Le bras de fer reprend sur les retraites complémentaires . Le patronat et les syndicats se retrouvent ce lundi 22 juin pour tenter de sauver les régimes en déficit. Après avoir subi une volée de critiques, le Medef a proposé un nouveau proj
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Fenninger-Konflikt mit ÖSV als Sturm im Wasserglas?Sun, 21 Jun 2015 07:22:00 +0200.

Innsbruck – Wenn sich Anna Fenninger derzeit über Facebook zu Wort meldet, dann hat das Gewicht – aber um die gestrige Meldung zu verstehen, hilft vielleicht ein Blick auf das Bild direkt unter dem Posting. Es zeigt die 26-jährige Salzburge
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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 (88), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (2), NOAA (1),