M 5.3 in Galapagos Triple Jungtion Region on 01 May 2017 07:17 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 1111742
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.9717 , -104.4152
Event Date: 01 May 2017 07:17 UTC
01 May 2017 00:17 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 May 2017 07:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008mdc Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),