M 4.9 in United Kingdom on 17 Feb 2018 14:31 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 1134951
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.65 , -3.83
Event Date: 17 Feb 2018 14:31 UTC
17 Feb 2018 14:31 Local
Exposed Population:
4090000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Feb 2018 14:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.4 (United Kingdom)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0.3
649041 Scaled population (vector) 6.88  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.56  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 389 | About casualties: 27 | Last hour: 0

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Alerta de tsunami desató preocupación en IquiqueMon, 19 Feb 2018 21:11:00 +0100.

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Aruba lo participa Caribe Wave 2018Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:42:00 +0100.

Bureau Rampenbestrijding Aruba kier a informa comunidad di Aruba riba dia 15 di maart 2018 lo tin e training di Caribe Wave, cual ta trata e tema di tsunami. Anualmente e region di Caribe ta organisa e training aki pa asina conscientisa tur
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),