M 5.3 in Reykjanes Ridge on 31 Mar 2017 17:25 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 1109104
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 52.6946 , -32.294
Event Date: 31 Mar 2017 17:25 UTC
31 Mar 2017 15:25 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Mar 2017 17:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008dm9 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),