M 4.5 in Morocco on 28 Jan 2016 19:48 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 1079533
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.4308 , -3.781
Event Date: 28 Jan 2016 19:48 UTC
28 Jan 2016 19:48 Local
Exposed Population:
1327189 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jan 2016 21:21 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: 357 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

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INSIDE TRACK: A revealing conversation in a Govan charity shopMon, 01 Feb 2016 17:45:00 +0100.

IT seems for all the world like any other charity shop: small and bustling, with every last inch given over to racks of clothes and bric-a-brac. Were you so minded to try to swing a cat in here, you would find it rather difficult. Yet this
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Von Ruanda bis Sumatra - Abschied aus der Auslandshilfe nach mehr als ... Mon, 01 Feb 2016 17:37:00 +0100.

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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),