M 5.4 in Christmas Island on 14 Jul 2016 18:28 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 1089986
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.4819 , 108.029
Event Date: 14 Jul 2016 18:28 UTC
15 Jul 2016 01:28 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Jul 2016 18:54 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006eqj 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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),