M 4.7 in Niger on 18 Jan 2017 21:48 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 1103561
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 19.6054 , 10.6599
Event Date: 18 Jan 2017 21:48 UTC
18 Jan 2017 22:48 Local
Exposed Population:
About 100 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jan 2017 01:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Niger)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007u0v 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 912 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

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CANBERRA, Australia - Un potente terremoto de magnitud 7,9 remeci� el domingo Pap�a Nueva Guinea e Islas Salom�n, causando da�os y apagones pero sin provocar alg�n tsunami. Horas antes, el Centro de Alerta de Tsunamis del Pac�fico emiti� un
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Strong Quake Hits Solomons; Some Damage but No TsunamiSun, 22 Jan 2017 20:27:00 +0100.

CANBERRA, Australia—A powerful magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck deep under Papua New Guinea on Sunday, causing damage and blackouts but no tsunami hours after the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued an alert for nearby islands. The mid-aft
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Terremoto oggi Abruzzo e Lazio 22-01-2017: scossa M 3.4 in provincia d ... Sun, 22 Jan 2017 20:23:00 +0100.

Terremoto oggi Abruzzo e Lazio 22-01-2017: scossa M 3.4 in provincia di L’Aquila, M 3.0 Amatrice – Dati Ingv ora. 18:44 Nessuna scossa di terremoto di magnitudo uguale o superiore a 3.0 della scala Richter registrata nel pomeriggio di oggi
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Terremoto de magnitud de 8 grados sacude a Islas SalomónSun, 22 Jan 2017 19:47:00 +0100.

Agencias CANBERRA, Australia.- Un potente terremoto de magnitud 8 remeció Papúa Nueva Guinea e Islas Salomón el domingo sin provocar ningún tsunami. Horas antes, el Centro de Alerta de Tsunamis del Pacífico emitió una alerta para las islas
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),