M 4.8 Off-shore on 27 Sep 2016 07:54 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 1094774
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -32.4287 , -178.2282
Event Date: 27 Sep 2016 07:54 UTC
26 Sep 2016 19:54 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Sep 2016 08:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006t3g 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: 722 | About casualties: 32 | Last hour: 0

Earthquake occurs near Lau RidgeSat, 01 Oct 2016 07:35:00 +0200.

Update: 5:29PM A MODERATE size earthquake with deep depth source location occurred near the Lau Ridge this afternoon. The 5.6 magnitude earthquake occurred at a depth of 534 kilometres in the Tonga region at 4:25pm. It occurred 499km southw
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Carlos Arcos Cabrera: ‘la memoria es una raíz elemental’Sat, 01 Oct 2016 07:34:00 +0200.

‘El hombre-pez y las tablillas de la memoria’ aborda a la cultura Jama Coaque (Manabí). Carlos Arcos Cabrera está concentrado. Con cautela toma unos apuntes sobre una de las mesas de la Biblioteca del Centro Cultural Benjamín Carrión. Sí, a
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Feature: Int'l support pours in Nepal for reconstruction of quake-dama ... Sat, 01 Oct 2016 07:25:00 +0200.

by Shristi Kafle. KATHMANDU, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- The premise of Jalapa Devi Higher Secondary School located in Melamchi municipality of Sindhupalchowk district, some 50 kilometers away from the capital city, looked vibrant. The way towards t
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Quake alert issued for Southern CaliforniaSat, 01 Oct 2016 06:49:00 +0200.

Such warnings are uncommon – typically issued once or twice a year, said Kelly Huston, the deputy director of crisis communications for the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services. Given the swarm’s location near the San Andreas fault, the
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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),