M 4.7 in Palau on 25 Oct 2016 12:41 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 1096419
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 71.52 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.8674 , 137.2171
Event Date: 25 Oct 2016 12:41 UTC
25 Oct 2016 21:41 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Oct 2016 14:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us20007glq 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

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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),