M 4.6 in Ethiopia on 13 Dec 2014 22:37 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 1045048
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 12.63 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.45 , 41.67
Event Date: 13 Dec 2014 22:37 UTC
14 Dec 2014 01:37 Local
Exposed Population:
337969 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Dec 2014 00:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
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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Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 306 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

School Particpates in Tsunami DrillWed, 17 Dec 2014 12:21:00 +0100.

Students at the Villa Primary School got a First Hand experience Of a Tsunami Exercise as The National Office of Disaster Services bring awareness to Disaster Preparedness. Here’s more in this Report.
Japon: deux réacteurs aptes à redémarrer, une aubaine pour le Premier ... Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:58:00 +0100.

Tokyo (AFP) Le gendarme japonais des installations atomiques a jugé mercredi deux réacteurs supplémentaires "techniquement" aptes à redémarrer, une décision qui va dans le sens espéré par le Premier ministre Shinzo Abe dont l'orientation pr
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Kari Lumikero: Tsunami on osa kansakuntamme kollektiivista muistiaWed, 17 Dec 2014 11:12:00 +0100.

Se ehkä onkin toiveita herättävintä Surun aallossa. Ihmisellä on hämmästyttävä kyky katsoa myös mahdottomalta tuntuvassa tilanteessa eteenpäin ja nähdä valon pilkahduksen. Paulan kertomus on osoitus tästä. Toivon että ohjelmalla kokonaisuu
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José Manuel Puertas: La encrucijada de Pablo LasoWed, 17 Dec 2014 11:09:00 +0100.

Maccabi en la final de la Euroliga en Mil�n desat� un tsunami de acontecimientos en el seno del club blanco, que no esperaba tal desenlace y menos frente a un Maccabi que parec�a llegar a la capital lombarda como convidado de piedra. A part
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),