M 4.7 in Algeria from 11 Jul 2017 03:18 UTC to 03:18

Event summary

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

GDACS ID EQ 1116678
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.74 , -1.72
Event Date: 11 Jul 2017 03:18 UTC
11 Jul 2017 03:18 Local
Exposed Population:
1020000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Jul 2017 03:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5 (Morocco)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Morocco= 5; Algeria= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
604480 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),