M 4.8 in Portugal on 07 Aug 2016 18:04 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 1091452
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 19.66 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.8715 , -29.4879
Event Date: 07 Aug 2016 18:04 UTC
07 Aug 2016 16:04 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Aug 2016 18:45 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006byy 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 856 | About casualties: 161 | Last hour: 0

Wildfires spare Marseille in France; danger high elsewhereThu, 11 Aug 2016 17:54:00 +0200.

A plane sprays fire extinguisher as part of an attempt to struggle against a fire which has already devastated some 200 hectares in Vitrolles, southern France on August 10, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/BORIS HORVATBORIS) MARSEILLE, France -- Wind-whip
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Wildfires spare Marseille in France; danger high elsewhereThu, 11 Aug 2016 17:54:00 +0200.

A plane sprays fire extinguisher as part of an attempt to struggle against a fire which has already devastated some 200 hectares in Vitrolles, southern France on August 10, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/BORIS HORVATBORIS) MARSEILLE, France -- Wind-whip
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18h39 Portugal : incendies maîtrisés à Madère, qui veut rassurer ses t ... Thu, 11 Aug 2016 17:45:00 +0200.

Les incendies qui ont fait trois morts à Funchal, la capitale de l'archipel portugais de Madère, étaient sous contrôle et le Premier ministre Antonio Costa, arrivé sur place jeudi, voulait désormais "rétablir la confiance" des touristes. "I
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Wildfires scorch two French towns, evacuating hundredsThu, 11 Aug 2016 17:34:00 +0200.

MARSEILLE, FRANCE—Wind-whipped wildfires spared the French city of Marseille on Thursday but scorched through two southern towns, burning homes and at least one school and leaving hundreds of people evacuated. Major highways shut down to ma
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),