M 5.1 in Svalbard and Jan Mayen on 29 Mar 2016 10:32 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 1083349
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 77.85 , 20.84
Event Date: 29 Mar 2016 10:32 UTC
29 Mar 2016 12:32 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Mar 2016 10:57 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=497270 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: 460 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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Strong quake shakes Alaska, no tsunami warningSat, 02 Apr 2016 10:16:00 +0200.

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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), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),