M 5.3 in Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 13 Apr 2017 02:58 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 1110125
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -12.3965 , -14.7349
Event Date: 13 Apr 2017 02:58 UTC
13 Apr 2017 01:58 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Apr 2017 03:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

For more info on GDACS alert score click here.
  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008h4w Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Executive Impact › One woman's mission to revive ailing kimono industr.. 4/17/2017 1:25:00 AM.

TOKYO. With grit and business acumen gleaned from executive roles in the corporate world, Joanne Wilkinson is using her love of kimono to support a community devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. After climbing the ladd
...(more)
Extreme sea-level rise could wreak havoc on coast, state experts warn 4/16/2017 2:59:00 AM.

A new report, ?#x201c;Rising Seas in California: An Update on Sea-Level Rise Science,?#x201d; stresses the potential for extreme sea-level rise because of uncertainties in projections of how ice sheets will melt due to their unique, hard-to
...(more)
Extreme sea-level rise could wreak havoc on coast, state experts warn 4/16/2017 2:37:00 AM.

A new report, ?#x201c;Rising Seas in California: An Update on Sea-Level Rise Science,?#x201d; stresses the potential for extreme sea-level rise because of uncertainties in projections of how ice sheets will melt due to their unique, hard-to
...(more)
Alpine Fault shake in Canterbury could be 'higher intensity' than prev.. 4/15/2017 1:36:00 AM.

In Canterbury, the simulation of an earthquake centred at the southern tip of the Alpine Fault, near Milford Sound, would produce peak ground velocity amplitudes that were 1.5 to 3 times greater than the empirical prediction. According to t
...(more)

View more news

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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),