M 4.7 in Ascension Island Region on 22 Sep 2017 04:34 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 1122059
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.3489 , -11.1483
Event Date: 22 Sep 2017 04:34 UTC
22 Sep 2017 03:34 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Sep 2017 04:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000at08 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 440 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

زلزال بقوة 6 درجات يضرب ساحل بابوا بغينياTue, 26 Sep 2017 04:14:00 +0200.

أعلنت هيئة المسح الجيولوجي الأمريكية، إن زلزالا قوته 6 درجات ضرب ساحل بابوا غينيا الجديدة. وقالت الهيئة إن مركز الزلزال يقع على بعد 193 كيلومترا جنوب مدينة تارون، وعلى عمق 5.7 كم. وأضافت هيئة المسح الجيولوجي الأمريكية أن الزلزال وقع على مسا
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Un sismo de magnitud 4 se siente en Lima y el Callao sin causar dañosTue, 26 Sep 2017 04:09:00 +0200.

Un sismo de magnitud 4 en la escala de Richter sacudió hoy Lima y el vecino puerto del Callao, sin que hasta el momento se reporten víctimas o daños materiales, informaron fuentes oficiales. El Instituto Geofísico del Perú (IGP) indicó que
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„Angst ist hier fehl am Platz“Tue, 26 Sep 2017 03:14:00 +0200.

Der Geruch von verbranntem Benzin und Öl lag am Samstag bereits während des Trainings des „4. Flight Club Freestyle Motocross“ in Rohrberg in der Luft. Zahlreiche Gäste waren gekommen, um bei einer der größten Veranstaltungen ihrer Art in M
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6.0-magnitude quake hits off Papua New GuineaTue, 26 Sep 2017 03:02:00 +0200.

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off Papua New Guinea today, according to the United States Geological Survey, but no Pacific-wide tsunami warning was issued. The tremor hit at a depth of five kilometres (three miles) near the sparsely-pop
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),