M 4.8 in Western Indian-Antarctic Ridge on 26 Jan 2016 13:50 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 1079354
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 5.27 Km
Lat/Lon: -49.2954 , 125.1372
Event Date: 26 Jan 2016 13:50 UTC
26 Jan 2016 21:50 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Jan 2016 18:24 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  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 288 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),