M 4.7 in Venezuela on 21 Aug 2015 12:50 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 1063583
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 32.07 Km
Lat/Lon: 10.0788 , -62.9925
Event Date: 21 Aug 2015 12:50 UTC
21 Aug 2015 08:20 Local
Exposed Population:
1080828 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Aug 2015 13:21 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: 226 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

AKP Ağrı İl Başkanı: Hezimetin sorumlusu merkezdirTue, 25 Aug 2015 12:36:00 +0200.

HDP'nin 4'te 4 yaptığı Ağrı'da AKP İl Başkanı Abdurrahman Çetin, AKP'nin Ağrı'da büyük bir hezimete uğradığını ve seçimin kendileri için bir tsunami olduğunu söyledi. Çetin, bu tablonun sorumlusunun genel merkez olduğunu belirtti. Yerel ve
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Marianna De Micheli, un'attrice in barca a velaTue, 25 Aug 2015 12:24:00 +0200.

Marianna De Micheli è un'attrice che ha scelto di cambiare vita. Protagonista di "Centovetrine" (interpretava la perfida Carol Grimani), dopo la chiusura della soap lo scorso marzo ha optato per un cambiamento radicale, salendo su una barca
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Japanese man visits British Columbia to reunite with boat lost in 2011 ... Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:45:00 +0200.

KLEMTU, B.C. - A Japanese fisherman is to be reunited with his boat more than four years after a powerful tsunami hit his country and carried the craft to the shores of British Columbia. Kou Sasaki arrived in Vancouver on Monday and later t
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Vulkane: Die feuerspuckenden Rachen der ErdeTue, 25 Aug 2015 10:29:00 +0200.

Die Erde ist umhüllt von einem schlecht vernähten Flickenteppich. Aus den Löchern quillt ihr heißes Inneres, das uns sonst verborgen bleibt. Das macht Vulkane so faszinierend, aber auch gefährlich: Allein in den vergangenen vier Jahrhundert
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),