M 5 in East Of South Sandwich Islands on 04 Mar 2017 20:11 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 1107043
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -59.1424 , -17.6654
Event Date: 04 Mar 2017 20:11 UTC
04 Mar 2017 19:11 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Mar 2017 03:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000871g 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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Wildfire forces closure of parts of Florida's "Alligator Alley" 3/8/2017 6:04:00 PM.

NAPLES, Fla. -- A portion of highway known as Alligator Alley remains shut down Wednesday due to smoky conditions from a wildfire that is burning in southwest Florida, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Lt. Gregory Bueno said that motorists s
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Part of Florida's Alligator Alley closed due to wildfires 3/8/2017 2:44:00 PM.

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — A portion of Interstate 75 that's also known as Alligator Alley remains shut down Wednesday due to smoky conditions from a wildfire that is burning in southwest Florida, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Lt. Gregory Bu
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Evacuations ordered as wildfire burns 6,000 acres in Florida 3/8/2017 2:07:00 PM.

March 8 (UPI) -- Authorities issued mandatory evacuations and closed part of Interstate 75 as a wildfire burned more than 6,000 acres in Florida's Collier County. "Collier County continues to monitor the Lee Williams wildfire burning east o
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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),