M 4.8 Off-shore on 21 Jul 2016 04:37 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 1090339
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 20.85 Km
Lat/Lon: -49.0906 , 30.8785
Event Date: 21 Jul 2016 04:37 UTC
21 Jul 2016 06:37 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jul 2016 04:54 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006gbu 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 (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),