M 5.3 in Southwest Indian Ridge on 15 Dec 2016 01:29 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 1100908
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 13.71 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.1659 , 61.0004
Event Date: 15 Dec 2016 01:29 UTC
15 Dec 2016 05:29 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Dec 2016 02:02 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200080w8 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: 313 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

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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),