M 5.3 in Iceland on 29 Sep 2014 13:43 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 1040574
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 64.56 , -17.2
Event Date: 29 Sep 2014 13:43 UTC
29 Sep 2014 13:43 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1969 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Sep 2014 14:09 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  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 208 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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Lundi 6 octobre paraîtra le nouveau roman de l'auteur massatoise Djalla-Maria Longa, «L'Enfant des vagues», aux éditions du Ker. Cette œuvre a pour point de départ le tsunami de 2004, un cataclysme que Djalla-Maria Longa, son mari et sa fil
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5.5 magnitude quake hits JapanFri, 03 Oct 2014 08:37:00 +0200.

An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale jolted Japan Friday, authorities said. The quake hit off Iwate Prefecture in northeast Japan, but no tsunami alerts along the coast have been issued, ...

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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),