M 4.5 in Romania on 19 May 2017 20:02 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 1113376
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 140 Km
Lat/Lon: 45.77 , 26.73
Event Date: 19 May 2017 20:02 UTC
19 May 2017 23:02 Local
Exposed Population:
2790000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 May 2017 20:05 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC n.a n.a
593078 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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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),