M 4.5 Off-shore on 14 Aug 2016 18:57 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 1091871
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 52.6443 , -32.5524
Event Date: 14 Aug 2016 18:57 UTC
14 Aug 2016 16:57 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Aug 2016 19:15 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006dsz 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

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The second time the overloaded bus stalled, passengers stayed put. They had already exited once to push. With the bus stuck on a one-lane mountain dirt road, its occupants stuffed inside and on the roof amid luggage and rice sacks, the driv
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NAVIC: India's Eye in the SkyThu, 18 Aug 2016 18:31:00 +0200.

NAVIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation), India’s indigenous global navigation satellite system, is expected to become fully operational from this month. Consisting of a constellation of three geostationary, four geosynchronous and two
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Ecuador: Ecuador Earthquake - Three Month Report, 28 July 2016Thu, 18 Aug 2016 18:12:00 +0200.

Humanitarian and recovery assistance should be provided based on evidenced needs in the affected provinces in rural and urban areas; as well as in and out of government managed camps. Efforts must be increased to meet the needs of rural com
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Terremoto de 5,7 grados sacude la costa noreste de AustraliaThu, 18 Aug 2016 18:06:00 +0200.

EFE Un terremoto de 5,7 grados en la escala abierta de Richter sacudió este jueves el litoral del noreste de Australia, sin que las autoridades informaran inicialmente de víctimas o daños. El Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS), que
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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),