M 4.6 in West Of Macquarie Island on 22 Apr 2017 19:27 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 1110889
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.6801 , 146.9901
Event Date: 22 Apr 2017 19:27 UTC
23 Apr 2017 05:27 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Apr 2017 21:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008jtg 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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),