M 4.5 in Svalbard and Jan Mayen on 16 Jul 2017 04:49 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 1117008
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 2 Km
Lat/Lon: 76.97 , 18.7
Event Date: 16 Jul 2017 04:49 UTC
16 Jul 2017 05:49 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jul 2017 06:56 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
605493 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

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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.
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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), INFORM (2), USGS (2),