M 4.6 Off-shore on 16 Jul 2016 14:07 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 1090085
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 27.63 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.058 , 140.9528
Event Date: 16 Jul 2016 14:07 UTC
16 Jul 2016 23:07 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jul 2016 14:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006f6w 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: 986 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

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(Caracas, 20 de julio – Noticias24).- Una réplica sísmica de 5,3 grados de magnitud se registró hoy en la provincia de Manabí, en la zona costera de Ecuador, que fue la más afectada por un potente terremoto ocurrido el pasado 16 de abril, i
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Supporting teenage girls after the Nepal earthquakeWed, 20 Jul 2016 13:40:00 +0200.

17 year old, Samjhana Basel was at home when the flattened most of her village in Khoplang VDC in Gorkha district . Despite her young age she is still married but she lives alone because her husband works abroad. Samjhana was keen to resume
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Why Florida quakes are rareWed, 20 Jul 2016 12:29:00 +0200.

By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor Published July 20, 2016 A 3.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Florida on July 16, 2016. (USGS) An earthquake struck off the coast of Florida on Saturday (July 16), a rare event in
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L'église de Basse-Pointe commence son désamiantageWed, 20 Jul 2016 12:25:00 +0200.

En 2007, le passage de l'ouragan Dean puis le tremblement de terre, quelques mois plus tard, ont fait beaucoup de dégâts. L'église de Basse-Pointe compte parmi les victimes de cette fameuse année : le toit s’était arraché et de larges fissu
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),