M 4.8 in Australia on 26 Sep 2016 06:20 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 1094694
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -54.8078 , 158.639
Event Date: 26 Sep 2016 06:20 UTC
26 Sep 2016 17:20 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Sep 2016 07:18 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006sph 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: 469 | About casualties: 54 | Last hour: 0

Family violence key in Vic crime spikeFri, 30 Sep 2016 06:03:00 +0200.

Family violence, home invasions and car thefts have contributed to a rise in crime across Victoria that the opposition is calling a "crime tsunami". The state's offence rate rose 11.2 per cent in 2015/16 to 8852 incidents per 100,000 people
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Standpunkte Jürgen Roth: Schmutzige DemokratieFri, 30 Sep 2016 04:54:00 +0200.

Was ist mit dir los, humanistisches Europa, du Verfechterin der Menschenrechte, der Demokratie und der Freiheit?" Nach dieser Frage von Papst Franziskus am 6. Mai 2016, anlässlich der Verleihung des Aachener Karlspreises im Vatikan, sollte
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Top Asian News 2:07 a.m. GMTFri, 30 Sep 2016 04:16:00 +0200.

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has described the U.S.-Philippines alliance as ironclad, one day after the Philippine president said joint military exercises with the U.S. would end. "As it has been for decades, our
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Engulfed dam threatens to burstFri, 30 Sep 2016 02:53:00 +0200.

The winds ripped at least 22 transmission towers from the ground across the mid-north with about 80,000 lightning strikes hitting the state, some damaging generation facilities. Here’s what you need to know. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. After temporari
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),