M 5.3 Off-shore on 29 Sep 2016 01:34 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 1094900
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.2864 , -177.6886
Event Date: 29 Sep 2016 01:34 UTC
28 Sep 2016 13:34 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Sep 2016 02:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006tpm 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: 757 | About casualties: 32 | Last hour: 0

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California en riesgo de un megaterromoto en los próximos díasMon, 03 Oct 2016 00:28:00 +0200.

Publicado 4:09 pm por archivado en El Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS) ha puesto en máxima alerta a los pobladores de California ante la posibilidad de un ‘Big One’, un terremoto de proporciones catastróficas en el sur de ese est
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Cuba suspende los vuelos a la parte oriental de la IslaMon, 03 Oct 2016 00:02:00 +0200.

Debido a la inminente evolución y trayectoria del huracán Matthew, los vuelos planificados con destino a las posibles áreas de mayor afectación quedan cancelados hasta nuevo aviso, se informó hoy. Debido a la inminente evolución y trayector
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Earthquake and homecomings as Jewel returns home on Alaska: The Last F ... Sun, 02 Oct 2016 23:08:00 +0200.

Tonight Jewel Kilcher is coming home to her famous family up in Alaska in the new season of Discovery Channel’s Alaska: The Last Frontier. After a decade away the prodigal daughter returns as singer-songwriter Jewel reunites with kin at her
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),