M 4.7 in Antigua and Barbuda on 26 Oct 2016 17:50 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 1096539
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 17.7779 , -61.1563
Event Date: 26 Oct 2016 17:50 UTC
26 Oct 2016 13:50 Local
Exposed Population:
About 10593 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Oct 2016 21:42 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000725g 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 436 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

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Sismo de 6.6° derrumba edificios en el centro de ItaliaSun, 30 Oct 2016 17:28:00 +0100.

Norcia, Italia. Un nuevo y poderoso terremoto el domingo en Italia central derribó edificios que habían resistido sismos anteriores y provocó el pánico entre los pobladores, que salieron corriendo a las calles, pero en principio no causó mu
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Nuevo sismo en Italia; no se reportan muertosSun, 30 Oct 2016 17:27:00 +0100.

ROMA.- Un poderoso sismo remeció Italia el domingo en las mismas regiones centrales que han sido afectadas por reiterados movimientos telúricos en los últimos dos meses, y provocó el desplome de más edificios, pero no se reportaron muertos
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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),