M 4.9 in Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 27 Apr 2017 03:45 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 1111349
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.4821 , -39.5793
Event Date: 27 Apr 2017 03:45 UTC
27 Apr 2017 00:45 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Apr 2017 04:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008l7j Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),