M 4.9 in Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 20 Feb 2016 13:42 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 1081019
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 4.5745 , -32.6203
Event Date: 20 Feb 2016 13:42 UTC
20 Feb 2016 11:42 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Feb 2016 17:57 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: 683 | About casualties: 45 | Last hour: 0

Denizler Altında Bulunan En Garip 10 ŞeyWed, 24 Feb 2016 13:23:00 +0100.

Açık deniz korkunuz artacak biliyoruz, ama hakikaten de örümcek. Su örümcekleri, salgıladıkları özel ağ sayesinde kendilerine nefes alabilmek için günlerce yetecek bir hava kabarcığı oluşturabiliyorlar, o kabarcıkla birlikte denizin altında
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Cabinet to expand safety checks on old housesWed, 24 Feb 2016 13:11:00 +0100.

Taipei, Feb. 24 (CNA) The Executive Yuan decided Wednesday to expand safety checks on old houses to cover those built before 1999, and it is initially estimated that the number of such structures to be checked will increase from the origina
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Huracán volvió a jugar después del accidente y perdió de localWed, 24 Feb 2016 12:53:00 +0100.

El Litoral. DyN. Huracán volvió a jugar 13 días después del dramático accidente en Venezuela y Atlético Nacional de Medellín lo venció 2-0, pero pudo haberlo goleado, en el Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó, donde se realizó el partido que correspo
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Alejandro Aravena, el Pritzker que diseña viviendas socialesWed, 24 Feb 2016 12:36:00 +0100.

El arquitecto chileno Alejandro Aravena cimentó la reputación que le llevó a ganar el último premio de arquitectura más importante del mundo, el Pritzker, con la construcción de viviendas sociales, y no rascacielos en Manhattan, pero ensegu
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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.
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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),