M 5.3 in North Atlantic Ocean on 17 Nov 2018 13:18 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 1162544
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.5648 , -49.9959
Event Date: 17 Nov 2018 13:18 UTC
17 Nov 2018 10:18 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Nov 2018 13:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000ht5z 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 253 | About casualties: 18 | Last hour: 0

Isolated Indian tribe kill American intruderWed, 21 Nov 2018 13:01:00 +0100.

PORT BLAIR, India — Tribespeople armed with bows and arrows killed an American tourist who illegally ventured to their island home, police said Wednesday in India’s Andaman islands where contact with indigenous people is banned to protect t
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Isolated Indian tribe kill American intruderWed, 21 Nov 2018 12:05:00 +0100.

PORT BLAIR, India, Nov 21, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Tribespeople armed with bows and arrows killed an American tourist who illegally ventured to their island home, police said Wednesday in India’s Andaman islands where contact with indigenous peopl
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Isolated Indian tribe kill American intruderWed, 21 Nov 2018 11:14:00 +0100.

PORT BLAIR, India: Tribespeople armed with bows and arrows killed an American tourist who illegally ventured to their island home, police said on Wednesday (Nov 21) in India's Andaman islands where contact with indigenous people is banned t
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American missionary, 27, killed by protected tribesmen on remote islan ... Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:12:00 +0100.

The Sentinelese tribe are an indigenous tribe who have thrived on North Sentinal Island, one of the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, for up to 55,000 years. They shun all contact with the outside world and are known to be hostile to any
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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),