M 4.9 in Iceland on 29 Sep 2014 03:52 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 1040567
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 8.31 Km
Lat/Lon: 64.67 , -17.49
Event Date: 29 Sep 2014 03:52 UTC
29 Sep 2014 03:52 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1601 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Sep 2014 04:18 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 224 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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TOKYO, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale hit off Iwate Prefecture in northeast Japan at around 9:57 a.m. local time Friday, said the Japan Meteorological Agency, without issuing tsunami alerts along the coa
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Más de un millón de chilenos participarán en simulacro de terremoto 8, ... Fri, 03 Oct 2014 02:45:00 +0200.

Más de un millón de personas, especialmente del sector educación, participarán en la capital chilena en un simulacro de un terremoto de 8,8 grados Richter, el próximo 29 de octubre.
Más de 1 millón de chilenos participará en simulacro de sismo de magni ... Fri, 03 Oct 2014 02:09:00 +0200.

Mas de un millón de personas, especialmente del sector de la educación, participarán en la capital chilena en el simulacro de un terremoto de magnitud 8,8 en la escala Richter, el próximo 29 de octubre....
Centroamérica tendrá su Centro de Alerta de TsunamiFri, 03 Oct 2014 01:29:00 +0200.

Nicaragua aceptó la propuesta de crear el Centro de Alerta de Tsunami de la región, un tema que será incorporado por la Centro de Coordinación para la Prevención de los Desastres Naturales de América Central (Cepredenac) en la agenda de la
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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), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),