M 4.9 Off-shore on 14 Sep 2016 09:18 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 1093927
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -1.2382 , -14.3036
Event Date: 14 Sep 2016 09:18 UTC
14 Sep 2016 08:18 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Sep 2016 09:48 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006pg1 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: 734 | About casualties: 25 | Last hour: 0

Haitianos se disfrazaron de africanos tras perder su empleo en BrasilSun, 18 Sep 2016 08:52:00 +0200.

La Cruz, Guanacaste –¿De dónde es usted?, pregunta el entrevistador. Sin inmutarse, el migrante contesta: “Congo”. –Pero usted no es de Congo. Usted es de Haití. – No, de Congo. –¿De qué parte? Se hace un silencio. El entrevistador insiste:
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Strong tides could trigger severe earthquakes: StudySun, 18 Sep 2016 08:45:00 +0200.

As per a report in LA Times, the Indonesia earthquake in 2004 and the one that had hit Chile in 2010, with a magnitude of 9.1 and 8.8 respectively, occurred around the time of a full moon, close to the peak time of tidal stress, the study s
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Cannon Beach considers buying former school in tsunami zoneSun, 18 Sep 2016 08:28:00 +0200.

CANNON BEACH — Cannon Beach is considering purchasing a former elementary school that had to close because it sits in a tsunami zone. The Daily Astorian reports that most of the campus of the school, which is owned by the Seaside School Dis
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100 Factories in Indonesia Village Help Meet Aceh’s Demand for BricksSun, 18 Sep 2016 07:51:00 +0200.

KAJHU, Indonesia – The many brick factories in an unassuming village in Indonesia’s northwestern province of Aceh have helped the region rebuild following the end of the 28-year insurgency and the devastating 2004 tsunami, an epa journalist
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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),