M 5.7 in Australia on 18 Aug 2016 04:30 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 1092058
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 7.82 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.8593 , 148.7255
Event Date: 18 Aug 2016 04:30 UTC
18 Aug 2016 14:30 Local
Exposed Population: About 29000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Aug 2016 04:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006em9 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: 587 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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Río de Janeiro pasa el relevo de los Juegos Olímpicos a TokioMon, 22 Aug 2016 03:24:00 +0200.

Río de Janeiro (Brasil), 22 ago (Sputnik). – Los Juegos de Río de Janeiro han llegado a su fin, pero en el horizonte ya están los de Tokio 2020: la ciudad japonesa también tuvo su momento de protagonismo en la ceremonia de clausura de los p
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Virtual field trip sees 3000 Kiwi kids descend on Alpine FaultMon, 22 Aug 2016 02:13:00 +0200.

EQC’s newest virtual field trip, "Geohazards", launched last week with 130 classes taking part (that’s over 3000 Kiwi kids). Virtual field trips allow New Zealand’s school children to visit some of our most fascinating locations without hav
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Extra earthquake equipment sent to NQMon, 22 Aug 2016 01:14:00 +0200.

Extra earthquake monitoring equipment is being sent to north Queensland, with experts predicting more events after last week's 5.8 earthquake. Last Thursday's quake, off the coast of Bowen, was the second strongest ever recorded off Austral
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),