M 5.2 Off-shore on 27 Oct 2016 01:03 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 1096559
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -1.4288 , -15.5944
Event Date: 27 Oct 2016 01:03 UTC
27 Oct 2016 00:03 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Oct 2016 02:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007287 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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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),