M 4.7 in Italy on 18 Jan 2017 11:07 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 1103478
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 42.62 , 13.24
Event Date: 18 Jan 2017 11:07 UTC
18 Jan 2017 12:07 Local
Exposed Population:
2770000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Jan 2017 12:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.4 (Italy)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.1 0.1
560812 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 3901 | About casualties: 329 | Last hour: 0

Italy rescue crews hold out hope of more hotel survivorsSun, 22 Jan 2017 11:00:00 +0100.

FARINDOLA, Italy (AP) - Rescue crews digging through an Italian hotel buried in an avalanche say there could be additional survivors more than three days after tons of snow came barreling down a mountainside. Rescuers told reporters in the
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Italy rescue crews hold out hope of more hotel survivorsSun, 22 Jan 2017 10:57:00 +0100.

Firefighters work at the avalanche-hit hotel in Rigopiano, central Italy, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. Rescuers listened for signs of any more survivors, four days after an avalanche slammed into a resort hotel in Italy’s central Apennines mounta
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No signs of life on fourth day of Italian avalanche rescueSun, 22 Jan 2017 10:55:00 +0100.

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 said Sunday. As the painstaking rescue operation entered a fourth day, firefighters and m
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Scossa di magnitudo 8 in Papua Nuova Guinea, escluso rischio tsunamiSun, 22 Jan 2017 10:48:00 +0100.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),