M 4.6 in Greenland Sea on 18 Mar 2017 04:30 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 1108099
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 2 Km
Lat/Lon: 79.7 , 2.91
Event Date: 18 Mar 2017 04:30 UTC
18 Mar 2017 04:30 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Mar 2017 05:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
577422 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 307 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

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Gempa di Bali Tak Berpotensi TsunamiWed, 22 Mar 2017 04:13:00 +0100.

Jakarta, ANTARA JATENG - Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi, dan Geofisika menyatakan gempa tektonik berkekuatan 5,6 Skala Richter yang mengguncang wilayah Bali, Jawa Timur, dan Lombok pada Rabu pukul 06.10 WIB, tidak berpotensi tsunami. Menuru
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Tourists fled hotels in panic after 5.5-magnitude earthquake hits BaliWed, 22 Mar 2017 04:08:00 +0100.

DENPASAR (AFP) – Tourists fled their hotels in panic on Bali on Wednesday (March 22) after the popular Indonesian holiday island was rattled by an early morning earthquake. The 5.5-magnitude quake struck inland about 10 kilometres north-eas
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Penjelasan Geologi ESDM Soal Gempa 6,4 SR di DenpasarWed, 22 Mar 2017 04:03:00 +0100.

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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),