M 5.2 in Ascension Island Region on 17 Aug 2017 08:52 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 1119467
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.6154 , -12.4697
Event Date: 17 Aug 2017 08:52 UTC
17 Aug 2017 07:52 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Aug 2017 09:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000a90w Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 318 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Memory and remembering 19 mins agoMon, 21 Aug 2017 06:06:00 +0200.

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À espera de um tsunami nos AndesMon, 21 Aug 2017 00:14:00 +0200.

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Sismo de 5.3 grados sacudió La Tinguiña, Ica, Pisco y LimaSun, 20 Aug 2017 22:26:00 +0200.

. Un sismo de 5.3 grados alarmó a la población de Ica y Lima esta tarde al promediar las 12:42 p. m. Según el Instituto Geofísico del Perú (IGP) el epicentro se ubicó a 9 kilómetros al noroeste de La Tinguiña, distrito ubicado en la provin
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Small earthquake strikes off Hawaii island's east coastSun, 20 Aug 2017 20:54:00 +0200.

HONOLULU (AP) " A magnitude 4.1 earthquake hit off the coast of the Big Island of Hawaii. The U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaii Volcano Observatory says the earthquake struck at 8:35 p.m. Friday about 66 miles (107 kilometers) northeast of th
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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),