M 4.6 Off-shore on 20 May 2016 12:12 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 1086608
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.4838 , -102.8211
Event Date: 20 May 2016 12:12 UTC
20 May 2016 05:12 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 May 2016 13:03 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: 1213 | About casualties: 49 | Last hour: 0

Tectonic plate quake-trigger spots accumulating in Nankai TroughTue, 24 May 2016 11:47:00 +0200.

Locations known as slip-deficit regions, which could trigger powerful earthquakes, are accumulating underground in the Pacific Ocean off central Japan where the Nankai Trough quake is forecast, research by a team of Japan Coast Guard office
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Científicos analizan la inestabilidad submarina en el mar de Alborán, ... Tue, 24 May 2016 11:41:00 +0200.

De hecho, fue el 25 de enero de este año cuando se produjo un terremoto de magnitud 6.3 con epicentro en el Mar de Alborán (35.6ºN, 3.81ºW), que ocasionó daños materiales en Melilla y ciudades marroquíes, y fue sentido también al sudeste de
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Científicos de la UGR analizan la inestabilidad submarina en el mar de ... Tue, 24 May 2016 11:39:00 +0200.

Científicos de la Universidad de Granada (UGR) analizan desde este lunes la inestabilidad en el mar de Alborán a bordo del buque Hespérides, desde el que estudiarán los movimientos que han podido ocurrir en el fondo marino durante la crisis
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120-Meter-Wellen: Mega-Tsunamis formten MarslandschaftTue, 24 May 2016 11:37:00 +0200.

Wir kennen den Mars als Wüstenplaneten mit teils eisigen Temperaturen. Das war aber nicht immer so. Der junge Mars besaß nach heutigem Wissen ein deutlich milderes Klima. Seit Langem spekulieren Astronomen darüber, ob vor rund 3,4 Milliarde
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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),