M 5.5 in Ascension Island Region on 10 Jun 2016 09:26 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 1087903
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.4573 , -13.58
Event Date: 10 Jun 2016 09:26 UTC
10 Jun 2016 08:26 Local
Exposed Population: Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Jun 2016 09:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200063gd 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

Articles: 959 | About casualties: 18 | Last hour: 0

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الاهتمام الإسرائيلي المفاجئ بالمبادرة العربيةTue, 14 Jun 2016 09:09:00 +0200.

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Extensions and block paving blamed for Birmingham floodsTue, 14 Jun 2016 08:30:00 +0200.

The rapid increase in block paved drives, tree felling and large house extensions have been blamed for contributing to the massive floods which hit Birmingham. The loss of front and back gardens uphill of the flood area has reduced natural
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),