M 4.6 in Oman on 23 May 2017 19:01 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 1113664
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.7992 , 54.9712
Event Date: 23 May 2017 19:01 UTC
23 May 2017 23:01 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 May 2017 19:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Oman)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008ug1 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 207 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Tick tack, tick tack: Nur noch ein paar Tage bis zum Ende der WeltSat, 27 May 2017 18:28:00 +0200.

Viel hilft viel wird sich der Macher des YouTube-Videos „End of the World – Something big will happen on earth may 31 2017“ wohl gedacht haben, bevor er es auf dem Kanal „Endtimes Signs-News & Conspiracy“ veröffentlicht hat. Untermalt mit d
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الحلم الذي تحطمSat, 27 May 2017 18:19:00 +0200.

ابتداء مبارك عليكم الشهر وتقبل الله منا ومنكم صالح الأعمال. فوجئت الشعوب الخليجية في الأسبوع الماضي بالواقع المأساوي الذي تعيشه العلاقات، التي يفترض أن تكون أخوية بين دول مجلس التعاون الخليجي، وذلك بعد الزوبعة الإعلامية التي حدثت بين بعض هذ
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Mission possible sur le volcanSat, 27 May 2017 17:03:00 +0200.

Avec le mauvais temps et l'éruption éclair, pouvez-vous faire un point de la mission « SlideVOLC » ? La mission de mesures de tomographie électrique, qui nous permet d'avoir une imagerie de la résistivité du sous-sol, de polarisation sponta
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Une catastrophe nucléaire pire que celle de Fukushima pourrait frapper ... Sat, 27 May 2017 16:32:00 +0200.

Selon l'Université de Princeton, Washington a sous-estimé le danger auquel le pays ferait face en cas d'incendie dans une centrale nucléaire. Les chercheurs précisent qu'une telle catastrophe serait plus dévastatrice que celle de Fukushima.
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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),