M 4.9 Off-shore on 22 Jul 2016 03:57 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 1090401
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -27.2763 , 66.3655
Event Date: 22 Jul 2016 03:57 UTC
22 Jul 2016 07:57 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Jul 2016 04:18 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006glt 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: 707 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

Australia: 6.1 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Southern Coast, Potential T ... Tue, 26 Jul 2016 03:52:00 +0200.

Geoscience Australia has confirmed the news, saying that the quake struck 15 kilometers deep. It shook 1,704 kilometers off the Queenstown coast on Monday. The US Geological Survey revealed that the average magnitude of the quake was 5.9, w
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02:54 زلزال بقوة 6.1 درجة يضرب تشيليTue, 26 Jul 2016 03:31:00 +0200.

مسعفون يحاولون إنقاذ إحدى ضحايا الزلزال فى تشيلى - صورة أرشيفية تصوير : other أعلنت السلطات في تشيلي أن زلزالا قويا هز شمال البلاد، مساء الإثنين، ما تسبب في تضرر مبان وطرق بالقرب من مركز الزلزال. وقالت هيئة الطوارئ التشيلية «أوميني» إن الز
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Un terremoto de 6,3 grados sacude el noreste de Papúa Nueva GuineaTue, 26 Jul 2016 03:29:00 +0200.

Sídney (Australia), 26 jun.- Un seísmo de 6,3 grados de magnitud sacudió hoy las aguas al sur de la isla de Manus, en el noroeste de Papúa Nueva Guinea, sin que se haya declarado alerta de tsunami o informado de víctimas o daños. El Servici
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Un terremoto de 6,3 grados sacude el noreste de Papúa Nueva GuineaTue, 26 Jul 2016 03:22:00 +0200.

Un seísmo de 6,3 grados de magnitud sacudió hoy las aguas al sur de la isla de Manus, en el noroeste de Papúa Nueva Guinea, sin que se haya declarado alerta de tsunami o informado de víctimas o daños. El Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos
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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),