M 5.1 in North Korea on 06 Jan 2016 01:30 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 1077914
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 41.3051 , 129.039
Event Date: 06 Jan 2016 01:30 UTC
06 Jan 2016 10:00 Local
Exposed Population:
2588196 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Jan 2016 03:54 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
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: 208 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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iniciaron la temporada estival tras conformar una nueva asociación gremial, que hoy busca posicionar y reimpulsar a la actividad turística en el tradicional sector porteño. Esto mediante la innovación y una potente oferta de diversos servic
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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),