M 5.2 in Cocos (Keeling) Islands on 10 Oct 2016 13:16 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 1095553
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.2917 , -175.173
Event Date: 10 Oct 2016 13:16 UTC
10 Oct 2016 01:16 Local
Exposed Population:
About 265 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Oct 2016 14:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007d2t 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: 167 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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Piden congelar permisos de edificación sobre la falla Según un estudio encargado por la seremi de Vivienda en 2012, el 50% del terreno por donde pasa la falla aún no está urbanizada, especialmente en la zona sur, como Peñalolén, La Florida,
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El otro Indio Solari, el de carne y huesoFri, 14 Oct 2016 11:28:00 +0200.

H ay otro Indio Solari. Al menos distinto de esa figura enigmática que se oculta tras sus lentes oscuros y gorrita casi pegada a su clásica e icónica cabeza rapada. Y se lo puede ver en "Tsunami", no casualmente subtitulado "Un océano de ge
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90% das mortes em catástrofes ocorrem nos países mais pobres, diz ONUFri, 14 Oct 2016 09:56:00 +0200.

NOVA YORK e PORTO PRÍNCIPE — O terrível terremoto de 2010, que matou mais de 200 mil haitianos, tinha magnitude de 7 graus na escala Ritcher. Na Nova Zelândia, um tremor semelhante com intensidade um pouco maior, de 7,2 de magnitude, poucos
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90% das mortes em catástrofes ocorrem nos países mais pobres, diz ONUFri, 14 Oct 2016 09:54:00 +0200.

Children play among the wreckage of a light aircraft in a camp for survivors of the January 2010 quake in Haiti, which was built in an abandoned airport in Port-au-Prince, on February 28, 2013. The UN has in Haiti a huge mission of peacekee
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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), INFORM (2), USGS (2),