M 4.8 in United States on 16 Feb 2016 23:04 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 1080762
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 15.1 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.2023 , -118.4035
Event Date: 16 Feb 2016 23:04 UTC
16 Feb 2016 15:04 Local
Exposed Population:
About 45858 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Feb 2016 04:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NCAL SS 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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Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 426 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

World: Ante el aumento de muertes infantiles en el mar, la OIM y organ ... Sat, 20 Feb 2016 21:21:00 +0100.

Posted 02/19/16. Region-Country Europe es / Suiza. Suiza - En promedio, dos niños se han ahogado diariamente desde septiembre de 2015 en la travesía que intentan realizar junto a su familia a través del Mediterráneo oriental, y el número de
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Business: Researchers believe GPS will hasten tsunami warningsSat, 20 Feb 2016 18:11:00 +0100.

WASHINGTON: Researchers at University of California, Berkeley, believe that global position system (GPS) instruments could provide more rapid and more accurate warning of a tsunami. In a paper to be published in the journal Geophysical Rese
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Raúl visita el Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Sismológicas en Sant ... Sat, 20 Feb 2016 17:25:00 +0100.

El General de Ejército Raúl Castro Ruz, Presidente de los Consejos de Estado y de Ministros visitó este viernes el Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Sismológicas en Santiago de Cuba. Durante más de dos horas dialogó con directivos y trabaj
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Caso Maremoto: Fiscalía se reúne con abogados defensores en antesala d ... Sat, 20 Feb 2016 16:59:00 +0100.

A menos de un mes de que se inicien las audiencias de preparación del juicio oral por el terremoto y maremoto ocurrido el 10 de febrero de 2010, el fiscal José Luis Pérez Calaf sostiene reuniones con los abogados de los imputados en la caus
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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),