M 5.5 in Oman on 31 Oct 2016 16:02 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 1097171
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 20.8956 , 61.6477
Event Date: 31 Oct 2016 16:02 UTC
31 Oct 2016 20:02 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Oct 2016 20:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000739d 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 310 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

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Elimu kuhusu Tsunami ni muhimu ili kupunguza athari- BanFri, 04 Nov 2016 15:47:00 +0100.

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World: 400 years of data show tsunami threat ever-present across the w ... Fri, 04 Nov 2016 15:42:00 +0100.

04 November 2016, GENEVA/NEW DELHI – The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mr. Robert Glasser, today warned against complacency in the face of the global tsunami threat which is often forgotten in pa
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),