M 4.6 in Reykjanes Ridge on 27 Jan 2017 19:55 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 1104221
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 59.5496 , -30.2514
Event Date: 27 Jan 2017 19:55 UTC
27 Jan 2017 17:55 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Jan 2017 21:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007vu4 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 292 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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Un sismo de magnitud 5,4 se registró este martes en la provincia de Esmeraldas, Ecuador, sin que se reportaran afectaciones , informó el Instituto Geofísico de la Escuela Politécnica Nacional, reseñó AVN. A través de su usuario en la red s
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New Indonesia tsunami network could add crucial minutesTue, 31 Jan 2017 19:31:00 +0100.

But with $3 million of funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, a prototype network of undersea sensors has been deployed between Padang and the Mentawai islands. Buoys are not needed because the undersea seismometers and pressure
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New Indonesia tsunami network could add crucial minutesTue, 31 Jan 2017 19:30:00 +0100.

But with $3 million of funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, a prototype network of undersea sensors has been deployed between Padang and the Mentawai islands. Buoys are not needed because the undersea seismometers and pressure
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This capsule could save lives in a tsunami The capsule is sold in Japa ... Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:27:00 +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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),