M 5.2 in Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 11 Feb 2016 17:00 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 1080448
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 11.48 Km
Lat/Lon: -25.675 , -13.7755
Event Date: 11 Feb 2016 17:00 UTC
11 Feb 2016 16:00 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Feb 2016 17:42 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: 714 | About casualties: 113 | Last hour: 0

List of soil liquefaction zones to be released in ...Mon, 15 Feb 2016 16:34:00 +0100.

Taipei, Feb. 15 (CNA) The government said it will soon make public a list of areas potentially vulnerable to soil liquefaction in a first step to address the problem that may have contributed to the collapse or subsidence of several buildin
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16 children confirmed to have thyroid cancer in 2nd Fukushima surveyMon, 15 Feb 2016 16:22:00 +0100.

In a survey that began in April 2014 to check the impact of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis, 16 children have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and 35 are suspected of having the disease, a prefectural government panel said Monday. Most
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Taiwán prepara un sistema de alerta nacional de desastres por telefoní ... Mon, 15 Feb 2016 16:09:00 +0100.

Taipei, 15 feb (EFE).- Taiwán, que acaba de sufrir un terremoto de 6,4 grados de magnitud en la escala abierta de Richter que causó 116 muertos, anunció hoy el lanzamiento en abril de un sistema de alerta inmediata de desastres naturales a
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CienciaTecnologia: Taiwán prepara un sistema de alerta nacional de des ... Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:48:00 +0100.

Taipei. (EFE).- Taiw�n, que acaba de sufrir un terremoto de 6,4 grados de magnitud en la escala abierta de Richter que caus� 116 muertos, anunci� hoy el lanzamiento en abril de un sistema de alerta inmediata de desastres naturales a los usu
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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),