M 5.8 in Southwest Indian Ridge on 29 Jan 2017 16:42 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 1104350
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.2007 , 61.2435
Event Date: 29 Jan 2017 16:42 UTC
29 Jan 2017 20:42 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Jan 2017 19:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007w1q 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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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),