M 6 in Southern East Pacific Rise on 16 Feb 2016 23:48 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 1080765
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.8203 , -125.1795
Event Date: 16 Feb 2016 23:48 UTC
16 Feb 2016 15:48 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Feb 2016 15:51 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: 476 | About casualties: 15 | Last hour: 0

Minor earthquake rattles Kitsap PeninsulaSat, 20 Feb 2016 22:30:00 +0100.

BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a minor earthquake rattled parts of the Kitsap Peninsula. The 3.4-magnitude tremor struck about eight miles west of Bremerton at 9:30 Saturday morning. residents from nearby to
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World: Ante el aumento de muertes infantiles en el mar, la OIM y organ ... Sat, 20 Feb 2016 21:21:00 +0100.

Posted 02/19/16. Region-Country Europe es / Suiza. Suiza - En promedio, dos niños se han ahogado diariamente desde septiembre de 2015 en la travesía que intentan realizar junto a su familia a través del Mediterráneo oriental, y el número de
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Un sismo de magnitud 5,5 sacude PerúSat, 20 Feb 2016 21:20:00 +0100.

Un sismo de magnitud 5,5 se ha registrado en la noche de este viernes (hora local) en la región de Arequipa, al sur de Perú, según informa el Instituto Geofísico del Perú. El temblor se ha registrado a una profundidad de 8 kilómetros. El ep
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Date-expired food sent for earthquake victimsSat, 20 Feb 2016 21:16:00 +0100.

Dhading, February 20. Date expired food items were found among the relief materials sent for the earthquake victims of Dhading by the District Disaster Rescue Committee, Lalitpur. The relief materials, including food items, were brought fr
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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 (48), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),