M 4.5 in Iceland on 15 May 2018 08:32 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 1143140
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 60.5703 , -28.8455
Event Date: 15 May 2018 08:32 UTC
15 May 2018 06:32 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 May 2018 09:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Iceland)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000e5bk 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 4 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Cuba Attends Tribute to Earthquake Victims in ChinaMon, 14 May 2018 04:09:00 +0200.

Beijing, May 12 (Prensa Latina) Cuba and several nations participated today in a tribute to the victims of the earthquake that shook Wenchuan county, in southwest China, on May 12, 2008. Cuban Consul William Silva told Prensa Latina that t
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12:09 Cuba Attends Tribute to Earthquake Victims in ChinaSat, 12 May 2018 18:38:00 +0200.

12 de mayo de 2018, 12:09 Beijing, May 12 (Prensa Latina) Cuba and several nations participated today in a tribute to the victims of the earthquake that shook Wenchuan county, in southwest China, on May 12, 2008. Cuban Consul William Silva
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European Solidarity Corps: VOLUNTEERING EÚ European Solidarity CorpsFri, 04 May 2018 10:07:00 +0200.

The European Solidarity Corps is the new European Union initiative offering young people opportunities to volunteer or work in projects in their own country or abroad while supporting communities and people around Europe. It was announced b
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Deep thinking: The source of Yellowstone's heatWed, 18 Apr 2018 03:11:00 +0200.

Depth cross section through the Earth, form the surface to the core-mantle boundary. The location of the section is shown by the purple line on the map. Warm colors indicate slower seismic velocities, which are areas of higher temperature.
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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 (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),