M 4.8 Off-shore on 06 Oct 2016 09:47 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 1095328
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.1212 , 61.1265
Event Date: 06 Oct 2016 09:47 UTC
06 Oct 2016 13:47 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Oct 2016 10:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007cbi 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: 772 | About casualties: 157 | Last hour: 0

Haiti mourns its dead amid appeals for aidMon, 10 Oct 2016 09:30:00 +0200.

Matthew was downgraded yesterday to a post-tropical cyclone after cutting a swathe from Florida to North Carolina that left 17 dead. At 3pm the storm was packing 120km/h winds as it moved away from the North Carolina coastline. Behind it la
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Lions support quake victimsMon, 10 Oct 2016 09:19:00 +0200.

However, they forced to abandon such plan following an announcement by the government that all donations should be handed over through the district or regional disaster committees. “Although we always give our donation directly to the vict
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To Help Haiti, Dont Donate To American Red Cross - HaitiansMon, 10 Oct 2016 08:56:00 +0200.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 10 (BERNAMA-NNN- TELESUR)--"In the coming days, many of you are going to write and ask me how you can 'help Haiti'," A woman from Haiti said in a Facebook Post earlier this week. "Here are my suggestions: 1. Don't give t
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ANO hnutí vyhrálo, velkolepé cunami to nebylo, napsal list SmeMon, 10 Oct 2016 08:51:00 +0200.

Ilustrační foto - Zleva lídr ANO v Jihomoravském kraji Bohumil Šimek, primátor Brna Petr Vokřál a druhá na kandidátce Taťána Malá sledují 8. října ve volebním štábu průběžné výsledky voleb. ČTK/Šálek Václav. Bratislava - Hnutí ANO Andreje
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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.
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),