M 4.9 in Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 15 Feb 2017 01:34 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 1105588
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.7857 , -28.3202
Event Date: 15 Feb 2017 01:34 UTC
14 Feb 2017 23:34 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Feb 2017 01:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008jv2 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: 874 | About casualties: 183 | Last hour: 0

Southern California rain eases; north facing renewed stormSun, 19 Feb 2017 01:03:00 +0100.

By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press. LOS ANGELES (AP) - A huge Pacific storm that parked itself over Southern California and unloaded, ravaging roads, opening sinkholes and leading to the deaths of at least three people, eased off Saturday. B
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Southern California rain eases; north facing renewed stormSun, 19 Feb 2017 01:01:00 +0100.

By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press. LOS ANGELES (AP) - A huge Pacific storm that parked itself over Southern California and unloaded, ravaging roads, opening sinkholes and leading to the deaths of at least three people, eased off Saturday. B
...(more)
Southern California rain eases; north facing renewed stormSun, 19 Feb 2017 00:46:00 +0100.

By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press. LOS ANGELES (AP) - A huge Pacific storm that parked itself over Southern California and unloaded, ravaging roads, opening sinkholes and leading to the deaths of at least three people, eased off Saturday. B
...(more)
Southern California rain eases; north facing renewed stormSun, 19 Feb 2017 00:43:00 +0100.

By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press. LOS ANGELES (AP) - A huge Pacific storm that parked itself over Southern California and unloaded, ravaging roads, opening sinkholes and leading to the deaths of at least three people, eased off Saturday. B
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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),