M 5 Off-shore on 02 Aug 2016 12:40 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 1091136
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.8467 , 82.5604
Event Date: 02 Aug 2016 12:40 UTC
02 Aug 2016 18:40 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Aug 2016 13:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100069fg 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: 653 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Nepal: Monsoon Preparedness Assessment: 14 Earthquake Affected Priorit ... Sat, 06 Aug 2016 12:07:00 +0200.

Nepal: Lack of safe land leaves communities at risk of landslide and flooding during the monsoon season. Ahead of the 2016 monsoon season in Nepal, concerns were raised that the destabilization in terrain conditions caused by the 2015 earth
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'Jamaicans taking disaster prep more seriously'Sat, 06 Aug 2016 09:15:00 +0200.

Director general of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management Major Clive Davis has said that Jamaicans have made strides in terms of their responsiveness to the threat of natural disasters. Davis said that evidence of th
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Oregon State University to build $50M center in tsunami zoneSat, 06 Aug 2016 08:52:00 +0200.

NEWPORT — Oregon State University is moving ahead with plans to build a $50 million expansion to house its marine science initiative in a tsunami inundation zone in Newport despite warnings from a state geologist that the site could make it
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Klimaforandringernes konsekvenser i SyditalienSat, 06 Aug 2016 08:32:00 +0200.

Italien opvarmes dobbelt så hurtigt som resten af planeten grundet CO2-udledning, og katastrofernes omfang forværres af lokale politikere, der giver byggetilladelse på steder, hvor folk er særligt udsatte. Det er i begyndelsen af august, år
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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),