M 4.7 Off-shore on 27 Aug 2015 13:42 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 1064029
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 31.92 Km
Lat/Lon: -26.928 , -176.174
Event Date: 27 Aug 2015 13:42 UTC
27 Aug 2015 01:42 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Aug 2015 15:33 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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Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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),