M 5 Off-shore on 13 Oct 2016 14:38 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 1095683
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -62.2797 , 165.0462
Event Date: 13 Oct 2016 14:38 UTC
14 Oct 2016 01:38 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Oct 2016 14:57 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007dth 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 554 | About casualties: 14 | Last hour: 0

6.2 quake jolts China's Qinghai province, no casualtiesMon, 17 Oct 2016 14:21:00 +0200.

agency reported. news The quake was strongly felt in the county seat, said Li Lianfu, an official with the Zadoi Earthquake Administration. All schools in Zadoi suspended classes and students were evacuated to playgrounds following the quak
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Reportan sismos en China y Papúa Nueva GuineaMon, 17 Oct 2016 14:05:00 +0200.

De momento, no hay datos sobre víctimas o destrucciones. Un terremoto de magnitud 6,4 sacudió este lunes la provincia de Qinghai en el noroeste de China, una zona de mucha actividad sísmica, informó el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (
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Sismo de magnitud 6,4 sacude ChinaMon, 17 Oct 2016 14:04:00 +0200.

Un terremoto de magnitud 6,4 sacudió el lunes 17 de octubre del 2016 la provincia de Qinghai en el noroeste de China , una zona de mucha actividad sísmica , indicó el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS) . El temblor se originó a 32
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Strong quake hits near PNG, no tsunami alert issuedMon, 17 Oct 2016 14:02:00 +0200.

A strong quake with magnitude of 6.7 jolted near Papua New Guinea on Monday, according to Indonesian geophysics and meteorology agency. The quake jolted at 13:14 p.m. Jakarta time (GMT0614) with epicenter at 422 km northeast Portmoresby and
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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),