M 5 in Timor-Leste on 28 May 2016 21:03 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 1087150
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 39.84 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.8734 , 126.6414
Event Date: 28 May 2016 21:03 UTC
29 May 2016 06:03 Local
Exposed Population:
527616 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 May 2016 21:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
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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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 278 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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Flut-Katastrophe überrascht NiederbayernWed, 01 Jun 2016 19:27:00 +0200.

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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),