M 4.6 in Saudi Arabia on 07 May 2017 14:23 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 1112323
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 11.2 Km
Lat/Lon: 17.7923 , 40.2306
Event Date: 07 May 2017 14:23 UTC
07 May 2017 17:23 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 May 2017 15:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Saudi Arabia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008qb8 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: 374 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),