M 5.5 in Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 09 Sep 2016 17:17 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 1093621
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 22.1102 , -45.8565
Event Date: 09 Sep 2016 17:17 UTC
09 Sep 2016 14:17 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Sep 2016 17:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006ndk 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: 599 | About casualties: 40 | Last hour: 0

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'Charlie Hebdo' defiende su caricatura sobre sismo en ItaliaTue, 13 Sep 2016 16:57:00 +0200.

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Tidal forces might make earthquakes bigger Large earthquakes are more ... Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:19:00 +0200.

How big an earthquake gets might depend on the moon. Researchers in Japan looked at the world's largest recorded earthquakes and found they were more likely to happen during full or new moons when tidal forces in the ocean are strong. SEE
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),