M 5.3 in Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 05 Oct 2016 20:53 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 1095293
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.0668 , -34.1105
Event Date: 05 Oct 2016 20:53 UTC
05 Oct 2016 18:53 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Oct 2016 21:12 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007c73 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

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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),