M 4.7 in Switzerland on 06 Mar 2017 20:12 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 1107184
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 6 Km
Lat/Lon: 46.91 , 8.92
Event Date: 06 Mar 2017 20:12 UTC
06 Mar 2017 21:12 Local
Exposed Population:
3990000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Mar 2017 20:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.4 (Italy)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Italy= 2.4; Germany= 1.5; Austria= 1.4; Liechtenstein= 1.3; Switzerland= 0.9

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.1 0.1
574281 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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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),