M 5.4 in Cocos (Keeling) Islands on 20 Feb 2017 23:55 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 1106062
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.8978 , -176.4089
Event Date: 20 Feb 2017 23:55 UTC
20 Feb 2017 11:55 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Feb 2017 00:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Cocos Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008l0q 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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Latest media headlines

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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), INFORM (2), USGS (2),