M 5.3 in Antarctica on 22 Feb 2017 08:25 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 1106147
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 68.11 Km
Lat/Lon: -60.8751 , -51.5244
Event Date: 22 Feb 2017 08:25 UTC
22 Feb 2017 05:25 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Feb 2017 09:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Antarctica)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008lda 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)

Latest media headlines

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Daiichi est tangible. Mais une fois in situ, le visiteur ressent l'incommensurabilité du chantier. Quelque 6000 hommes vont et viennent chaque jour dans ce gigantesque site ravagé par le tsunami de mars 2011. Des masques faciaux, casques, c
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Moins de radiations, mais une tâche titanesque 2/26/2017 7:00:00 AM.

Daiichi est tangible. Mais une fois in situ, le visiteur ressent l'incommensurabilité du chantier. Quelque 6000 hommes vont et viennent chaque jour dans ce gigantesque site ravagé par le tsunami de mars 2011. Des masques faciaux, casques, c
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Moins de radiations, mais une tâche titanesque 2/26/2017 6:57:00 AM.

Daiichi est tangible. Mais une fois in situ, le visiteur ressent l'incommensurabilité du chantier. Quelque 6000 hommes vont et viennent chaque jour dans ce gigantesque site ravagé par le tsunami de mars 2011. Des masques faciaux, casques, c
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Un cutremur de 5,4 grade s-a produs astazi în Tokyo 2/26/2017 5:43:00 AM.

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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),