M 5 Off-shore on 01 Nov 2016 08:27 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 1097247
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 16.59 Km
Lat/Lon: -35.1708 , -15.1703
Event Date: 01 Nov 2016 08:27 UTC
01 Nov 2016 07:27 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Nov 2016 12:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100073fk 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),