M 5 in Western Indian-Antarctic Ridge on 10 Jan 2017 03:01 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 1102888
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -48.7211 , 126.4849
Event Date: 10 Jan 2017 03:01 UTC
10 Jan 2017 11:01 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Jan 2017 03:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007s8e Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 678 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

For ski resorts in the West, too much snow is a good thingFri, 13 Jan 2017 23:39:00 +0100.

While the closures cost resorts income from lift tickets, the businesses will likely make it up in the long run by promoting the fresh snow on Twitter and getting more people excited to come up and carve powder turns. “It’s like you just go
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THERE is a need to improve how the National Disaster Management Office ... Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:18:00 +0100.

THERE is a need to improve how the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) emergency operations centre works, says NDMO's acting director Sunia Ratulevu. Mr Ratulevu said the response from the office during and after a disaster struck wo
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How high is too high for a pile of chicken droppings?Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:03:00 +0100.

In this Jan. 11, 2017, photo provided by Sherman Hiatt, a wildfire triggered when a pile of chicken manure caught fire in a barn threatens property near Charleston, Ark. Agriculture experts are warning farmers to make sure their waste piles
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NASA made an animated map of the rains flooding CaliforniaFri, 13 Jan 2017 21:25:00 +0100.

This is the "pineapple express" in action. The animated map from NASA's Earth Observatory shown above provides a striking visual portrayal of the heavy rains that hit California and the southwestern United States from Jan. 7-10. (The map do
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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),