M 5.3 in Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 08 Feb 2016 23:26 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 1080254
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 28.3833 , -43.8025
Event Date: 08 Feb 2016 23:26 UTC
08 Feb 2016 20:26 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Feb 2016 23:48 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 879 | About casualties: 54 | Last hour: 0

Photojournalists 'can be the eyes of the people'Fri, 12 Feb 2016 22:39:00 +0100.

Intern photographer Kevin Lim was in a cab on his way to a job in 2008 when he saw something that made him jump out of the taxi. It was an accident scene: A lorry had veered off the road and struck a woman after she had shoved her toddler s
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Asia Briefs: Court: Sonia, Rahul to face trial in graft caseFri, 12 Feb 2016 22:39:00 +0100.

Court: Sonia, Rahul to face trial in graft case. NEW DELHI • India's Supreme Court said yesterday that opposition leaders Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul will have to face trial in a case involving the alleged misuse of party funds, but exem
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Snowpack could shorten Oregon wildfire season in high elevationsFri, 12 Feb 2016 22:10:00 +0100.

Oregon's healthy snowpack should keep much of the ground wet this spring, and that could help ease late summer's tough fire season, even if just a little, officials say. Thousands of acres burned across the state costing hundreds of million
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În Indonezia - Cutremur de 6,5 gradeFri, 12 Feb 2016 21:57:00 +0100.

Un cutremur cu magnitudinea de 6,5 grade a avut loc vineri în estul Indoneziei, a informat Institutul american de geofizică (USGS), însă nicio alertă de tsunami nu a fost declanşată, potrivit autorităţilor locale. Cutremurul s-a produs în c
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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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),