M 5.3 in Palau on 06 Aug 2016 04:19 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 1091361
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 12.08 Km
Lat/Lon: 4.7416 , 132.4888
Event Date: 06 Aug 2016 04:19 UTC
06 Aug 2016 13:19 Local
Exposed Population:
About 105 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Aug 2016 04:42 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006bt2 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),