M 4.8 Off-shore on 20 Sep 2016 11:36 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 1094284
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.3127 , 60.9812
Event Date: 20 Sep 2016 11:36 UTC
20 Sep 2016 15:36 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Sep 2016 11:57 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006r1h 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 420 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

Pasifik'te korkutan depremSat, 24 Sep 2016 11:53:00 +0200.

''Pasifik Ateş Çemberi'' deprem ve volkan kuşağında yer alan Filipinler'de meydana gelen 6.3 büyüklüğündeki deprem büyük korkuya neden oldu. Bölgede tsunami uyarısı yapılıyor. Filipinler açıklarında 6,3 büyüklüğünde deprem meydana geldi. Y
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‘I Thought It Was End Of World': Earthquake hits Romania, UkraineSat, 24 Sep 2016 11:43:00 +0200.

This is the second time a quake shakes Ukraine in last two months A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit eastern Romania Saturday, September 24, the US Geological Survey said, according to Reuters. Read also: Italy Earthquake: Death toll climbs pas
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Cutremur cu magnitudinea de 6,3 în FilipineSat, 24 Sep 2016 11:43:00 +0200.

Un cutremur puternic, cu magnitudinea de 6,3, a avut loc sâmbătă dimineaţa în Filipine. Autoritățile nu au declanșat, însă, alertă de tsunami, în urma seismului, relatează AFP. Cutremurul s-a produs în largul coastelor de sud ale Filipinelo
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Costa Rica gets 100 illegal immigrants a day hoping to get to USSat, 24 Sep 2016 11:39:00 +0200.

More than 100 illegal immigrants are entering the small Central American country of Costa Rica every day, looking for "coyotes" to take them across the Nicaraguan border and on toward the United States, President Luis Solis said on Friday.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),