M 5.3 in Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 10 Feb 2017 02:58 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 1105210
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.8978 , -12.9016
Event Date: 10 Feb 2017 02:58 UTC
10 Feb 2017 01:58 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Feb 2017 03:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008iu2 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 1142 | About casualties: 219 | Last hour: 0

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Officials were warned the Oroville Dam emergency spillway wasn't safe. ... Tue, 14 Feb 2017 01:06:00 +0100.

In 2005, three environmental groups warned state and federal officials about what they believed was a problem with Oroville Dam’s emergency spillway, which was at risk of collapsing over the weekend as recent storms caused the adjacent mass
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Summer rain in the Western Australia brings gains and lossesTue, 14 Feb 2017 00:38:00 +0100.

Summer rain in the Western Australia's Great Southern: The gains and the losses for the agricultural sector. As the extent of flood damage in the south of Western Australia becomes more clear, sheep producers in the south of the state are
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Tornadoes hit New Orleans, southern LouisianaTue, 14 Feb 2017 00:22:00 +0100.

NEW ORLEANS — Tornadoes touched down in southern Louisiana on Tuesday, wiping houses from their foundations and downing power lines as severe weather moved across the region. At least 25 people were brought to New Orleans hospitals with inj
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),