M 4.8 in Georgia on 12 Jul 2016 10:14 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 1089825
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 41.37 , 44.04
Event Date: 12 Jul 2016 10:14 UTC
12 Jul 2016 14:14 Local
Exposed Population:
2191627 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Jul 2016 12:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
517838 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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Ongoing wildfire continues to spread on Lookout Mountain 7/14/2016 5:11:00 AM.

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Damaging Storms Move East 7/9/2016 5:50:00 AM.

Story Highlights. Severe weather will continue to calm down from Texas to the Carolinas. Damaging winds and large hail may still occur through early Saturday. Strong storms may develop early Saturday in the Northeast and northern Plains sta
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Damaging Storms in Midwest, East 7/8/2016 6:58:00 AM.

Story Highlights. Severe weather will threaten parts of the Midwest and East into Friday. Damaging winds and large hail are the main threats. Severe thunderstorms, primarily with damaging winds and large hail, will threaten the Midwest a
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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 (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),