M 5 Off-shore on 12 Aug 2016 20:47 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 1091741
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 30 Km
Lat/Lon: 84.18 , -1.87
Event Date: 12 Aug 2016 20:47 UTC
12 Aug 2016 20:47 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Aug 2016 21:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
523523 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: 1066 | About casualties: 129 | Last hour: 0

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Más de 50 personas, entre empresarios e innovadores regionales, se reunieron en el Hotel Diego de Almagro en La Serena en el marco del Seminario “¿Cómo medir y transformar la innovación en rentabilidad para la empresa?” desarrollado por el
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Gobierno peruano decreta estado de emergencia en zona afectada por ter ... Tue, 16 Aug 2016 20:31:00 +0200.

Por EFE 16.ago.2016 | 11:40. El Gobierno de Perú decretó hoy el estado de emergencia durante 60 días en varios distritos de la provincia de Caylloma, en la región sureña de Arequipa, donde un sismo de magnitud 5,3 en la escala de Richter de
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China extends assistance to post-quake education of NepalTue, 16 Aug 2016 20:09:00 +0200.

DOLAKHA, Nepal, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- The China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA), a Chinese NGO working in Nepal right after the earthquake of 2015, provided educational assistance to schools in one of the earthquake-hit district on
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China extends assistance to post-quake education of NepalTue, 16 Aug 2016 19:56:00 +0200.

DOLAKHA， Nepal， Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- The China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA)， a Chinese NGO working in Nepal right after the earthquake of 2015， provided educational assistance to schools in one of the earthquake-hit district on
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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),