M 5 in Saudi Arabia on 16 May 2016 01:45 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 1086367
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 28.66 , 34.6965
Event Date: 16 May 2016 01:45 UTC
16 May 2016 03:45 Local
Exposed Population:
About 54269 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 May 2016 02:06 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1335 | About casualties: 49 | Last hour: 0

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FORT MCMURRAY, ALBERTA – A massive wildfire raging in Canada’s oil sands capital has moved into Alberta’s neighboring province of Saskatchewan, but officials said Thursday that they hope cooler temperatures and rain forecast for the coming
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Expert to tell story of skeletons unearthed in £30m Aberdeen gallery r ... Fri, 20 May 2016 01:30:00 +0200.

The reconstruction of 750-year-old skeletons by a global forensic anthropologist could tell story of medieval Aberdeen. Aberdeen City Council is in talks with a leading forensic anthropologist to turn the discovery of medieval skeletons int
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عونيون غاضبون في بعبدا: ربح النواب وخسرناFri, 20 May 2016 01:01:00 +0200.

لا يمكن ذكر التسونامي العوني من دون المرور على قضاء بعبدا حيث تمكن التيار الوطني الحر من إيصال نوابه الثلاثة واكتساح المنطقة. إلا أن العونيين لم يتمكنوا في الانتخابات الأخيرة من فرض نفوذهم القوي في القضاء على مجالس الأقضية لأسباب عدة، أبرزه
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Ministro César Navas reitera que no existe alerta de tsunamiFri, 20 May 2016 01:01:00 +0200.

La información proporcionada por el Instituto Oceanográfico de la Armada (INOCAR) acerca de que el movimiento telúrico de 6.8 grados sentido, no genera tsunami, fue ratificó por el ministro coordinador de Seguridad, César Navas, por lo que
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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.
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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),