M 4.6 Off-shore on 17 Oct 2016 18:22 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 1095932
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 5.3038 , 61.4043
Event Date: 17 Oct 2016 18:22 UTC
17 Oct 2016 22:22 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Oct 2016 23:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007evn 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

Articles: 1243 | About casualties: 32 | Last hour: 0

Terremoto de 6.6 grados en JapónFri, 21 Oct 2016 18:05:00 +0200.

Se registró un terremoto de 6.6 grados de magnitud en la escala Ritcher en l prefectura de Tottori, en el oeste de Japón. Al momento no se ha activado la alerta de tsunami por este terrmoto que tuvo su hipocentro a 10 kilómetros de profu
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ACTUALIZACION: Terremoto de 6.2 grados sacude el oeste de JapónFri, 21 Oct 2016 17:53:00 +0200.

Un fuerte terremoto de 6.2 grados de magnitud, según el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos, en la escala abierta de Ritcher sacudió hoy la prefectura nipona de Tottori (oeste de Japón) sin que se activara la alerta de tsunami. Ocho person
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Descubren un ´puente’ entre fallas paralelas en CaliforniaFri, 21 Oct 2016 17:52:00 +0200.

La revista ‘avances científicos’ recoge los datos obtenidos por geólogos sobre la situación geográfica de california, Estados Unidos. Una nueva línea de fallas, nunca antes detectada, pone a California en una probabilidad alta de ser escena
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Haiti: Shelter working group - Field Assessment Report: Jeremie to Les ... Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:51:00 +0200.

Discalimer: The observational data is based on a rapid observational assessment travelling along main access routes.‐many of the areas were easy to access and close to markets. Housing construction and materials my not be representative of
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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),