M 5 in Albania on 08 Apr 2017 13:53 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 1109759
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 27.15 Km
Lat/Lon: 41.8016 , 19.9714
Event Date: 08 Apr 2017 13:53 UTC
08 Apr 2017 15:53 Local
Exposed Population:
2510000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Apr 2017 14:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.2 (Albania)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Albania= 4.2; Serbia= 3.8; The Republic of North Macedonia= 3.7

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us10008fub 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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),