M 4.7 in Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 02 Jul 2017 05:07 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 1116091
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.9281 , -26.9628
Event Date: 02 Jul 2017 05:07 UTC
02 Jul 2017 03:07 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Jul 2017 05:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100095u2 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 344 | About casualties: 49 | Last hour: 0

12:55 amThu, 06 Jul 2017 03:42:00 +0200.

In the journal Seismological Research Letters, seismologists Roland LaForge and William McCann describe how they used the records to trace the impact of the earthquake in Aguadilla, the town closest to the 1918 epicenter. The researchers co
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Tsunami en Japón tras terremotoThu, 06 Jul 2017 03:01:00 +0200.

La agencia de meteorología japonesa levantó la alerta de tsunami casi dos horas después de haberla emitido, pero aconsejó a la población que se alejara de la costa del Pacífico, donde se produjo el sismo. "Levantamos la alerta pero el nivel
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Kaikoura landslide found off Hawke's Bay coastThu, 06 Jul 2017 02:35:00 +0200.

Scientists say they've found new geological evidence offshore Hawke's Bay of sediment flows produced by underwater landslides near Kaikoura, about 700km away from its source. The underwater landslides were caused by strong ground shaking fr
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Positives from negativesThu, 06 Jul 2017 02:02:00 +0200.

by Padraig Colman. I have written in recent articles about the spirit of rebellion developing among the public as a result of what disasters have revealed about the shortcomings of the Governments of Sri Lanka and the UK. Lights on, nobody
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),