M 4.5 in Italy from 16 Aug 2018 20:22 UTC to 20:22

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1153947
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 1.19 Km
Lat/Lon: 41.8421 , 14.817
Event Date: 16 Aug 2018 20:22 UTC
16 Aug 2018 22:22 Local
Exposed Population:
2830000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Aug 2018 20:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.4 (Italy)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us1000gav6 Scaled population (vector) 6.3  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0.29  
  INFORM_normalised 0.68  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 188 | About casualties: 15 | Last hour: 0

Things that keep me up at nightSat, 18 Aug 2018 20:15:00 +0200.

It’s been a grim couple of months across the world. There was the earthquake in Indonesia that claimed over 430 lives, the fires in Greece, Portugal and the US and, most recently, the bridge collapse in Genoa Italy that killed dozens. These
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Un terremoto de magnitud 5,3 sacude la región italiana de MoliseSat, 18 Aug 2018 04:33:00 +0200.

Esta noche de jueves la región italiana de Molise, se ha despertado al notar cómo la tierra se movía. Lo ha captado una cámara de seguridad. Un terremoto de magnitud 5,3 en la escala Richter ha sacudido la zona, en el centro de Italia, caus
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Terremoto de 5.2 sacude varias regiones del centro de ItaliaFri, 17 Aug 2018 20:57:00 +0200.

EFE Un terremoto de magnitud 5.2 en la escala Richter sacudió este jueves a las 20.19 horas (18.19 GMT) la región central italiana de Molise y también se sintió en las regiones cercanas de Campania y Apulia, informó el Instituto Nacional de
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Cementarnica USJE Skopje : USJE takes part in “SARCOS RILEM&rdqu ... Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:43:00 +0200.

17.08.2018. Cementarnica USJE, following its continuous efforts to promote the education of young talented professionals, as well as its commitment for close cooperation with educational institutions, once again opened its doors for the doc
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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 (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),