M 4.9 Off-shore on 24 Sep 2016 23:42 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 1094634
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -32.3725 , -178.2476
Event Date: 24 Sep 2016 23:42 UTC
24 Sep 2016 11:42 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006sfj 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: 946 | About casualties: 50 | Last hour: 0

Local First-ever tsunami-safe building standards released First-ever t ... Wed, 28 Sep 2016 21:48:00 +0200.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- For the first time, there are national standards for buildings in tsunami zones. Engineers and academics have been working on the standards, and Wednesday they released them, at a meeting at the Oregon Convention Center. T
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Portoviejo tendrá pregón y desfile por sus 196 años de IndependenciaWed, 28 Sep 2016 21:32:00 +0200.

Desde el Municipio de la capital manabita se confirmó que éste sábado 1 de octubre se llevará a cabo el tradicional pregón. "Participarán cerca de mil personas", confirmó Danny Zambrano, del departamento de comunicación del GAD. El pregón i
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Desde un «fraude» a un «terremoto»: la reacción de los otros partidos ... Wed, 28 Sep 2016 21:31:00 +0200.

España Las seis noticias que debes leer para acabar el día informado Desde un «fraude» a un «terremoto»: la reacción de los otros partidos a la crisis del PSOE. Pablo Iglesias, Albert Rivera o Íñigo Errejón se han pronunciado a través de Tw
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5.2-magnitude quake strikes off coast of Japan's Hokkaido region, no t ... Wed, 28 Sep 2016 21:30:00 +0200.

TOKYO， Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a preliminary 5.2 magnitude struck off the north-east coast of Japan's Hokkaido Prefecture early Thursday morning， Japan's weather agency said， although did not issue a tsunami warning or advis
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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.
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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),