M 4.7 in Mid-Indian Ridge on 17 Feb 2016 15:26 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 1080804
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -13.0968 , 66.5899
Event Date: 17 Feb 2016 15:26 UTC
17 Feb 2016 19:26 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Feb 2016 23:33 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  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 480 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

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HUMANITARIAN CRISIS FACING AFRICA WITH ONE MILLION VERY HUNGRY CHILDRE ... Sun, 21 Feb 2016 13:42:00 +0100.

JOHANNESBURG South Africa (Xinhua) -- The Eastern and Southern Africa countries are heading towards a humanitarian crisis with over a million children requiring treatment for severe acute malnutrition, UNICEF has said. Most of these countri
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Monumento a víctimas de Isla OrregoSun, 21 Feb 2016 13:10:00 +0100.

Se acerca una fecha inolvidable para nuestro país. El 27 de febrero se cumplen seis años de aquella fatídica madrugada donde la vida de todos se sacudió junto con la tierra. El terremoto de 2010 golpeó el valle central de Chile; pero fue el
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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),