M 4.7 in Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 18 Jan 2017 13:51 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 1103525
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 32.7776 , -39.644
Event Date: 18 Jan 2017 13:51 UTC
18 Jan 2017 10:51 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Jan 2017 14:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007txx Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 1163 | About casualties: 106 | Last hour: 0

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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),