M 4.7 in Jan Mayen on 28 Feb 2016 18:24 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 1081547
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 2 Km
Lat/Lon: 71.76 , -2.34
Event Date: 28 Feb 2016 18:24 UTC
28 Feb 2016 18:24 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Feb 2016 19:12 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=491347 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: 392 | About casualties: 45 | Last hour: 0

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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), INFORM (2), USGS (2),