M 5 in Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 22 Feb 2018 05:48 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 1135486
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.8125 , -44.9506
Event Date: 22 Feb 2018 05:48 UTC
22 Feb 2018 02:48 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Feb 2018 06:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000d69c Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 273 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

EU's Donald Tusk warns Poland against 'anti-Semitic excesses'Sat, 24 Feb 2018 20:13:00 +0100.

EU President Tusk warns Warsaw must 'stop the wave of bad opinions about Poland' caused by recent 'anti-Semitic excesses.' EU President Donald Tusk warned Poland on Friday against "anti-Semitic excesses" and other behavior that risked ruin
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Gov. Lolo has completed FEMA damage assessments in handSat, 24 Feb 2018 19:02:00 +0100.

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The joint preliminary damage assessment (PDA) following Tropical Storm Gita is completed and the data has been turned over to the Governor’s Office to Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga, who makes the final decision for r
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سفينة الرحمة الأميركية تبدأ أكبر مهمة إنسانيةSat, 24 Feb 2018 17:38:00 +0100.

انطلاقا من ميناء سان دييغو بولاية كاليفورنيا بدأت السفينة الطبية الأميركيةUSNS Mercy الجمعة رحلة إنسانية إلى منطقة المحيط الهادئ تشمل دول اندونيسيا وسريلانكا وماليزيا وفيتنام. وتقل USNS Mercy أي سفينة الرحمة، فريقا يضم نحو 800 من العسكريين
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سفينة الرحمة الأميركية تبدأ أكبر مهمة إنسانيةSat, 24 Feb 2018 17:23:00 +0100.

انطلاقا من ميناء سان دييغو بولاية كاليفورنيا بدأت السفينة الطبية الأميركيةUSNS Mercy الجمعة رحلة إنسانية إلى منطقة المحيط الهادئ تشمل دول اندونيسيا وسريلانكا وماليزيا وفيتنام. وتقل USNS Mercy أي سفينة الرحمة، فريقا يضم نحو 800 من العسكريين
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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),