M 4.9 in Mid-Indian Ridge on 30 Mar 2016 03:59 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 1083398
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.9743 , 66.7792
Event Date: 30 Mar 2016 03:59 UTC
30 Mar 2016 07:59 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Mar 2016 04:48 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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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),