M 4.9 in Svalbard and Jan Mayen from 03 May 2017 05:08 UTC to 05:08

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1111935
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 2 Km
Lat/Lon: 71.23 , -9.7
Event Date: 03 May 2017 05:08 UTC
03 May 2017 04:08 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 May 2017 05:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
588894 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 251 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

مقدمة النشرة المسائية 6-05-2017Sun, 07 May 2017 04:59:00 +0200.

لم تعد الأرقام وجهة نظر، بل اصبحت مرعبة . فحين يصل العاطلون عن العمل من اللبنانيين إلى 350 الفًا ، في مقابل 800 الف سوري يعملون في لبنان ، فهذا يعني اننا سنصل إلى يوم يكون فيه السوريون في لبنان عاملين، فيما اللبنانيون عاطلون من العمل ... هذ
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Earthquake hits part of Alaska's Aleutian Islands chainSun, 07 May 2017 03:42:00 +0200.

Anchorage (US), May 7 (AP) The Alaska Earthquake Centre reports that a magnitude 4.9 earthquake hit part of the Aleutian Islands chain. The centre says the quake struck about 12:43 pm (Alaska time) yesterday in the Fox Islands region of the
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Earthquake hits part of Alaska's Aleutian Islands chainSun, 07 May 2017 03:16:00 +0200.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The Alaska Earthquake Center reports that a magnitude 4.9 earthquake hit part of the Aleutian Islands chain. The center says the quake struck about 12:43 p.m. Saturday Alaska time in the Fox Islands region of the A
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Earthquake hits part of Alaska's Aleutian Islands chainSun, 07 May 2017 03:10:00 +0200.

The center says the quake struck about 12:43 p.m. Saturday Alaska time in the Fox Islands region of the Aleutians. The epicenter was 69 miles (110 kilometers) east of the Amukta Pass. The National Tsunami Warning Center says there is no ts
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),