M 4.9 in Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 11 Mar 2017 12:53 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 1107545
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.5082 , -44.9967
Event Date: 11 Mar 2017 12:53 UTC
11 Mar 2017 09:53 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Mar 2017 13:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100088eq 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: 904 | About casualties: 35 | 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),