M 4.3 in Italy on 21 Aug 2017 18:57 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 1119752
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.3M
Depth: 10.43 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.8304 , 14
Event Date: 21 Aug 2017 18:57 UTC
21 Aug 2017 20:57 Local
Exposed Population:
5680000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Aug 2017 09:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.4 (Italy)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000aaae 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 (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),