M 4.8 in Australia on 28 May 2016 15:30 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 1087138
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 9.74 Km
Lat/Lon: -32.3981 , 122.4233
Event Date: 28 May 2016 15:30 UTC
28 May 2016 23:30 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1930 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 May 2016 16:48 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: 437 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

Sismo de 5.3 grados se registró en la madrugadaWed, 01 Jun 2016 14:20:00 +0200.

Las réplicas del terremoto del pasado 16 de abril continúan. Pese a que la mayoría de los movimientos han sido de intensidades menores a los 4 grados, la madrugada de este miércoles se registró un sismo que hizo despertar a los habitantes d
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نتنياهو تعهد للسيسي بخطوات عملية نحو "حل الدولتين"Wed, 01 Jun 2016 13:29:00 +0200.

في منتصف الاسبوع الماضي، عندما تبين أنه بدلاً من اسحق هرتسوغ والمعسكر الصهيوني سيدخل الى الحكومة افيغدور ليبرمان واسرائيل بيتنا، رفع رئيس الوزراء، بنيامين نتنياهو، الهاتف وتحدث مع الرئيس المصري، عبدالفتاح السيسي. ولم يكن هذا حديثا سهلا. فقد
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Arabic weather term 'haboob' is apparently troubling for some TexansWed, 01 Jun 2016 12:40:00 +0200.

On Sunday evening, a haboob — like the one shown here — rolled through Lubbock, Tex., but some Texans were more upset by the terminology than the storm itself. (Daniel Bryant) A wall of dust raced toward Lubbock, Tex., on Sunday, and the N
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Aerial surveys document ocean debris around HawaiiWed, 01 Jun 2016 09:23:00 +0200.

HONOLULU — HONOLULU (AP) ��� A study of the eight main Hawaiian Islands shows that ocean debris regularly accumulates around the archipelago, and that most of it is not linked to the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, state officia
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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),