M 4.9 in Australia on 08 Apr 2017 01:19 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 1109724
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 8.2 Km
Lat/Lon: -53.7635 , 159.1685
Event Date: 08 Apr 2017 01:19 UTC
08 Apr 2017 12:19 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Apr 2017 01:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (Australia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008fqr 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)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),