M 5.3 Off-shore on 21 Jul 2016 16:28 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 1090377
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.8493 , -174.8442
Event Date: 21 Jul 2016 16:28 UTC
21 Jul 2016 04:28 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jul 2016 16:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006ggf 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: 580 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

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Canberra. – El servicio sismológico de Australia reportó un sismo con intensidad preliminar de 6.1 grados Richter, el cual ocurrió frente a las costas del sur del país. El movimiento se registró a las 18:58 horas locales, (8:58 GMT) a mil 7
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Un sismo de magnitud 6,1 sacude el sur de AustraliaMon, 25 Jul 2016 15:40:00 +0200.

En un primer momento se había reportado que el terremoto era “potencialmente causante de tsunami”. Un fuerte sismo de magnitud 6,1 ha sacudido este lunes el sur de Australia, informa Geoscience Australia . En un primer momento se había repo
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تسونامي الحزب الشيوعي: مؤامرة عزل الشفيع /قطان/تُلب/وخواجه .. بقلم: حا ... Mon, 25 Jul 2016 15:37:00 +0200.

هذا مقتطف من رسالة بعثت بها الي مركز الحزب قبل أكثر من شهرين وتحديداً بتاريخ 14 مايو أي قبل أن تؤول الأمور الي ما هوعليه الآن وقبل أن يحاول (المصلحين الجدد ) البناء مستخدمين معاول لائحية وتكتيك أقل ما يوصف بأنه تآمري بدأ ينخر في الساس ويهدم
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Georgia: If you don’t measure, you don’t know: the invisible plight of ... Mon, 25 Jul 2016 15:36:00 +0200.

The elderly are usually the last to flee from an unfolding conflict or disaster. Once displaced, many are vulnerable to poor health and face greater obstacles to restoring livelihoods and achieving durable solutions. Guest bloggers Ana Mosn
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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),