M 4.1 in Italy on 27 Sep 2012 01:08 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 119898
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.1M
Depth: 2 Km
Lat/Lon: 41.15 , 14.97
Event Date: 27 Sep 2012 01:08 UTC
27 Sep 2012 03:08 Local
Exposed Population:
7050000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Sep 2012 01:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.5 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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 (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),