M 4.6 in Iceland on 28 Jan 2017 17:32 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 1104287
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 68.2613 , -17.9414
Event Date: 28 Jan 2017 17:32 UTC
28 Jan 2017 16:32 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jan 2017 18:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Iceland)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007vya Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),