M 5.1 in Norway on 12 Oct 2016 20:32 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 1095649
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -54.4368 , 5.938
Event Date: 12 Oct 2016 20:32 UTC
12 Oct 2016 20:32 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Oct 2016 20:48 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007dlp 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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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),