M 4.6 in West Of Macquarie Island on 22 Apr 2017 19:27 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 1110889
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.6801 , 146.9901
Event Date: 22 Apr 2017 19:27 UTC
23 Apr 2017 05:27 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Apr 2017 21:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008jtg Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 804 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

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Markey pledges to fight efforts to 'gut' net neutralityWed, 26 Apr 2017 18:37:00 +0200.

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Minister ds. Fukushimy zrezygnował po niefortunnej wypowiedziWed, 26 Apr 2017 18:24:00 +0200.

Na następcę Imamury premier Shinzo Abe powołał Masayoshiego Yoshino, deputowanego z prefektury Fukushima, który dotychczas przewodniczył specjalnej parlamentarnej komisji ds. odbudowy po katastrofie. Były minister powiedział dziennikarzom
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Tsunami in PNL: Mihai Voicu, vizat de DNAWed, 26 Apr 2017 18:19:00 +0200.

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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),