M 4.6 in Zambia on 09 Jan 2016 03:05 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 1078219
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.0456 , 28.5553
Event Date: 09 Jan 2016 03:05 UTC
09 Jan 2016 05:05 Local
Exposed Population:
1988381 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Jan 2016 03:27 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 266 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Aleutian Quake Zone Could Shoot Big Tsunamis To Hawaii, CaliforniaWed, 13 Jan 2016 01:35:00 +0100.

Two teams of geologists say portions of the sea floor along the Aleutian Islands in southwestern Alaska could produce tsunamis more devastating than anything seen in the past century. They say California and Hawaii are directly in the line
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2015 census saw populations fall in disaster-hit Fukushima, Miyagi, Iw ... Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:02:00 +0100.

The population of three northeastern prefectures hit hard by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami logged declines in the 2015 national census, preliminary results of the survey conducted every five years showed Tuesday. As of Oct. 1 last year, t
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New geological evidence aids tsunami hazard assessments from Alaska to ... Tue, 12 Jan 2016 22:37:00 +0100.

A geologist takes field notes to document the discovery of a 9 m (30 feet) long driftlog stranded more than 805 m (0.5 mi) inland at Stardust Bay on the remote Alaskan island of Sedanka. The log, stranded at an elevation of more than 18 met
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A big rethink in how to aid people beset by crisisTue, 12 Jan 2016 22:35:00 +0100.

If the number of people in urgent need of humanitarian aid (100 million) lived in a single country, it would be the 12th largest in the world. That startling comparison is helpful for two reasons. One, not since World War II have there been
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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),