M 5 in Western Indian-Antarctic Ridge on 19 Jan 2017 10:15 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 1103578
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -49.0448 , 127.5453
Event Date: 19 Jan 2017 10:15 UTC
19 Jan 2017 19:15 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jan 2017 10:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007u2v Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),