M 4.8 in British Indian Ocean Territory on 17 Oct 2016 18:04 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 1095945
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.8211 , 68.7706
Event Date: 17 Oct 2016 18:04 UTC
17 Oct 2016 23:04 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Oct 2016 22:54 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007evt 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: 822 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

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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Japonya da 6.6 Büyüklüğünde Deprem Meydana GeldiFri, 21 Oct 2016 17:48:00 +0200.

Japonya'nın batısı 6.6 büyüklüğündeki depremle sarsıldı. Japonya'nın batısı 6.6 büyüklüğündeki depremle sarsıldı. İlk belirlemelere göre depremde can kaybı yaşanmazken, 40 binden fazla ev elektriksiz kaldı. Depremin merkez üssünün başkent
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Terremoto de 6.2 grados sacude el oeste de JapónFri, 21 Oct 2016 17:34:00 +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
...(more)
Terremoto de 6,6 grados sacude el oeste de JapónFri, 21 Oct 2016 17:33:00 +0200.

Un fuerte terremoto de 6,6 grados de magnitud en la escala abierta de Ritcher sacudió hoy la prefectura nipona de Tottori (oeste de Japón) sin que se activara la alerta de tsunami, informó la Agencia Meteorológica nipona (JMA). Ocho persona
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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),