M 4.5 in Australia on 07 Oct 2015 20:30 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 1068405
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 14.71 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.2291 , 121.8742
Event Date: 07 Oct 2015 20:30 UTC
08 Oct 2015 04:30 Local
Exposed Population:
About 13657 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Oct 2015 22:48 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: 154 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Gigantisk tsunami skabte bølger på 170 meters højdeSun, 11 Oct 2015 19:51:00 +0200.

Da et enormt jordskred på en vulkan i Kap Verde væltede i havet for 73.000 år siden, skabte det bølger på 170 meters højde, der væltede ind over en nærliggende ø. Det er en af de største tsunamier, man nogensinde har registreret i den geolo
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Suman simulacros de tsunami a las actividades de Protección CivilSun, 11 Oct 2015 17:30:00 +0200.

Ahora Protección Civil realizará simulacros de tsunami en escuelas, empresas y hoteles de Cancún. (Tomás Álvarez/SIPSE) Itzel Chan/SIPSE CANCÚN, Q. Roo.- Como consecuencia de la propuesta del proyecto de Norma Oficial Mexicana (NOM)-006-20
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BJP's tsunami will sweep Nitish, Lalu away, says Amit ShahSun, 11 Oct 2015 15:29:00 +0200.

Dinara (Sasaram), Oct. 11 (ANI): A confident Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah on Sunday said that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav would be swept away by the tsunami of the
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Más de 300 niños participaron en “Tongoy: una fiesta en nuestra cancha ... Sun, 11 Oct 2015 12:40:00 +0200.

De juegos y risas se vistió la localidad de Tongoy, tras la realización de una clínica deportiva en la que participaron más de 300 niños y niñas. A una semana del puntapié inicial de la Copa Mundial Sub-17 de la FIFA Chile 2015 y como una f
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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),