M 5.1 in Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 20 Feb 2016 14:59 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 1081009
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 4.505 , -32.5457
Event Date: 20 Feb 2016 14:59 UTC
20 Feb 2016 12:59 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Feb 2016 15:15 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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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),