M 5.1 Off-shore on 27 Aug 2015 10:50 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 1064018
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 26.9226 , -44.2516
Event Date: 27 Aug 2015 10:50 UTC
27 Aug 2015 07:50 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Aug 2015 11:12 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: 179 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Acusan a la Junta de imponer la 'esclavitud' en sus consorciosMon, 31 Aug 2015 10:21:00 +0200.

El director de la Escuela del Mármol de Andalucía, uno de los consorcios de formación de la Junta, acusa al Gobierno andaluz de practicar la «esclavitud» por obligar a sus trabajadores a seguir cumpliendo con sus obligaciones pese a deberle
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10 Jahre Katrina: "Es war schwer zu ertragen"Mon, 31 Aug 2015 10:21:00 +0200.

Durch den Klimawandel steigt die Flutgefahr in Dominica, einem kleinen Inselstaat in der Karibik. Ein schwerer Wirbelsturm oder Tsunami könnte Teile der Insel überfluten und viele Menschenleben kosten. Die Ursachen für den völlig gestörten
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A concerted voice from small islands on climate change will be vitalMon, 31 Aug 2015 10:05:00 +0200.

By Pita Ligaiula. The Asian Development (ADB) says a strong and coordinated voice on climate change for the Pacific is vital ahead of the Climate Change talks in Paris in December later this year. Speaking at a public lecture in Fiji, ADB P
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Opera “La isla de los peces” de Guillermo Eisner en el Gam, 4 al 6 de ... Mon, 31 Aug 2015 05:46:00 +0200.

36 personas muertas y 10 desaparecidos. Esa es la cifra oficial de víctimas que dejó el tsunami del 2010 en la Isla Orrego. Todos estaban ahí esperando la noche veneciana, la fiesta con que tradicionalmente cierran el verano en Constitución
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),