M 5.2 in Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 05 Jan 2017 03:23 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 1102545
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.4483 , -12.6078
Event Date: 05 Jan 2017 03:23 UTC
05 Jan 2017 02:23 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Jan 2017 03:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007r9m Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 693 | About casualties: 45 | Last hour: 0

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Report: Food stocks low in southern HaitiMon, 09 Jan 2017 01:24:00 +0100.

Hundreds of thou-sands of people in southern Haiti are facing food shortages three months after Hurricane Matthew destroyed crops and livestock in the region, an international aid organisation said Wednesday. A "very poor" harvest is expect
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Philippines: évacuation de 6000 personnesSun, 08 Jan 2017 22:55:00 +0100.

Environ 6000 personnes ont été évacuées de leur foyer en prévision de l'arrivée d'une tempête tropicale qui a frappé dimanche le sud des Philippines. Elle risque de générer inondations et glissements de terrain, selon les autorités. La temp
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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),