M 4.8 Off-shore on 21 Jul 2016 11:57 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 1090359
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 24.77 Km
Lat/Lon: -0.9356 , -80.3787
Event Date: 21 Jul 2016 11:57 UTC
21 Jul 2016 06:57 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jul 2016 12:18 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006gdb 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: 580 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

Japón casi cuadruplicará sus sensores de detección temprana de ...Mon, 25 Jul 2016 11:49:00 +0200.

Japón casi cuadruplicará los sensores de detección de tsunamis con los que cuenta actualmente para detectar con mayor rapidez y precisión estos fenómenos, recogió hoy la cadena pública japonesa NHK. La Agencia Meteorológica de Japón (JMA) i
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Ecuador: 2,280 aftershocks reported since earthquake of April 2016Mon, 25 Jul 2016 11:00:00 +0200.

eluniverso.com/EFE reported aftershocks that the April 16 hit a section of the northern coast of Ecuador arrived today to 2,280, according to the Geophysical Institute (IG) of the National Polytechnic School. IG report notes that in the las
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Le Top 10 des tremblements de terre les plus destructeurs de la régionMon, 25 Jul 2016 10:04:00 +0200.

Plusieurs internautes ont fait état d'un petit tremblement de terre cette nuit aux alentours de Menton. La secousse a été ressentie jusqu'à Berre-les-Alpes selon un témoin, sur place où la terre a " tremblé pendant 10 secondes. Ces secousse
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Le Top 10 des tremblements de terre les plus destructeurs de la régionMon, 25 Jul 2016 09:46:00 +0200.

Plusieurs internautes ont fait état d'un petit tremblement de terre cette nuit aux alentours de Menton. La secousse a été ressentie jusqu'à Berre-les-Alpes selon un témoin, sur place où la terre a " tremblé pendant 10 secondes. Ces secousse
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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 (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),