M 5.1 Off-shore on 07 May 2016 16:07 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 1085887
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -0.3076 , -18.8995
Event Date: 07 May 2016 16:07 UTC
07 May 2016 15:07 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 May 2016 16:24 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: 1106 | About casualties: 21 | Last hour: 0

Montañistas llegan a cima del Everest por 1ra vez en 2 añosWed, 11 May 2016 15:46:00 +0200.

Nueve guías nepaleses alcanzaron la cima del Everest, para convertirse en los primeros en dos años en conquistar la montaña más alta del mundo luego de una serie de tragedias. Gyanendra Shrestha, del Departamento de Montañismo de Nepal, di
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PACO to host medical supply donation drive for Ecuador earthquake vict ... Wed, 11 May 2016 15:43:00 +0200.

The sign on the side of a highway outside Pedernales, Ecuador, seen on April 25, reads "We need help because we were affected by the earthquake, we need food and medicine." More than a dozen roads were closed due to damage from th April 16,
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Waterloo-made drones to help map Fort McMurray wildfireWed, 11 May 2016 15:42:00 +0200.

A company based in Waterloo, Ont., says it has received approval to provide drone assistance in mapping out the fire-ravaged regions of Fort McMurray, Alta. On Tuesday, Aeryon Labs wrote on its website that Calgary-based Ventus Geospatial w
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Italy court acquits engineer sentenced for quake deathsWed, 11 May 2016 15:42:00 +0200.

Fabrizio Cimino, was sentenced to three years in jail in February 2014, after a court in L’Aquila ruled he was responsible for the deaths caused during the collapse of a building in the town’s central Via d’Annunzio during the earthquake of
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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),