M 5.7 in Italy on 18 Jan 2017 10:14 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 1103466
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 9 Km
Lat/Lon: 42.53 , 13.28
Event Date: 18 Jan 2017 10:14 UTC
18 Jan 2017 11:14 Local
Exposed Population: 2840000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Jan 2017 10:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.4 (Italy)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.6 0.6
560781 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: 4099 | About casualties: 350 | Last hour: 0

No signs of life on fourth day of Italian avalanche rescueSun, 22 Jan 2017 10:00:00 +0100.

Nine people have been pulled alive from the rubble so far. — Reuters pic PENNE, Jan 22 — Rescuers combing the wreckage of an Italian hotel in a bid to find survivors of a devastating avalanche detected no signs of life overnight, officials
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Papua New Guinea Earthquake Live Updates: No Tsunami Threat From 7.9-M ... Sun, 22 Jan 2017 10:00:00 +0100.

UPDATE: 3:05 a.m. EST — The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC), in its final alert , rescinded the tsunami threats following a 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Papua New Guinea at 4:30 a.m. UTC Sunday (11:30 p.m. EST
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Séisme en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, l'alerte au tsunami levéeSun, 22 Jan 2017 10:00:00 +0100.

© Copyright : DR. Un séisme de magnitude 7,9 a frappé dimanche la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, dans le Pacifique, provoquant une alerte au tsunami qui a été levée par la suite. Selon l'Institut d'études géologiques américain USGS, le tremble
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Papua Yeni Gine'de depremSun, 22 Jan 2017 10:00:00 +0100.

Papua Yeni Gine'de 8 büyüklüğünde deprem meydana geldi. Deprem sonrası Tsunami uyarısında bulunuldu. Okyanusya ülkesi Papua Yeni Gine'de 8 büyüklüğünde deprem meydana geldi. Amerika Deprem Araştırma Enstitüsü'nün aktardığı bilgilere göre, A
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (2), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),