M 5.1 Off-shore on 18 Oct 2016 07:51 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 1095959
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 5.7252 , 61.5091
Event Date: 18 Oct 2016 07:51 UTC
18 Oct 2016 11:51 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Oct 2016 08:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007f0y 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1281 | About casualties: 32 | Last hour: 0

Top Asian News 4:45 a.m. GMTSat, 22 Oct 2016 07:11:00 +0200.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Taliban, Afghan and Pakistani officials say three senior Taliban members have held a series of meetings with Pakistani officials in Islamabad to brief them about the recent talks held in Qatar between the Taliban and Kabul.
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Terremoto de 6.6 grados sacude el oeste de Japón sin alerta de tsunamiSat, 22 Oct 2016 06:45:00 +0200.

Un fuerte terremoto de 6.6 grados de magnitud en la escala abierta de Ritcher sacudió este viernes la prefectura nipona de Tottori (oeste de Japón) sin que se activara la alerta de tsunami, informó la Agencia Meteorológica nipona (JMA). Och
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Medical workers from Pittsburgh area travel to hurricane zone as part ... Sat, 22 Oct 2016 06:31:00 +0200.

Learn more. Health and Human Services medical assistance missions are normally up to two weeks in the continental U.S. and three weeks overseas, said Knox Walk, a team commander who is based at UPMC McKeesport. HHS has 80 teams with about 5
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Sismo de 6,6 grados sacude el oeste de JapónSat, 22 Oct 2016 06:25:00 +0200.

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