M 5.3 Off-shore on 18 May 2016 15:07 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 1086510
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 16.34 Km
Lat/Lon: -32.7695 , -109.1716
Event Date: 18 May 2016 15:07 UTC
18 May 2016 08:07 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 May 2016 15:30 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  
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),