M 4.8 in Panama on 17 Aug 2016 16:22 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 1092042
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 3.55 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.8492 , -82.0289
Event Date: 17 Aug 2016 16:22 UTC
17 Aug 2016 11:22 Local
Exposed Population:
450302 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Aug 2016 22:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006egr 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: 437 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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Strong 6.0 quake hits northern Japan: USGSSun, 21 Aug 2016 14:11:00 +0200.

TOKYO -- A strong earthquake struck off the coast of northern Japan for a third consecutive day early Sunday though there were no immediate reports of people injured or damage. The shallow 6.0 magnitude quake hit at 00:58 am (1558 GMT Satur
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ناسا تتيح أبحاثها مجانا على الإنترنتSun, 21 Aug 2016 13:23:00 +0200.

اذا كنت ترغب في الحصول على معلومات عن التسونامي الذي حدث في المريخ ويبلغ ارتفاعه 400 قدم، فبإمكانك الآن الحصول عليها بسهولة لأن وكالة الفضاء الأميركية “ناسا” قررت إتاحة جميع أبحاثها مجانا على الإنترنت. وقالت صحيفة إندبندنت البريطانية -في تق
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),