M 5.3 in Portugal on 16 Feb 2019 06:45 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 1170958
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 41.3292 , -29.2389
Event Date: 16 Feb 2019 06:45 UTC
16 Feb 2019 04:45 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Feb 2019 07:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Portugal)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000jis2 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 7 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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La Unidad Militar de Emergencias, lista para acudir a cualquier catást ... Tue, 12 Feb 2019 21:34:00 +0100.

La rotura de una presa en el río Suarón ha provocado una tremenda inundación en Vegadeo. Las aguas han arrastrado vehículos y personas hasta la misma ría del Eo, y causado graves daños en edificios, muchos de los cuales están a punto de der
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Maltese earthquake simulation draws volunteers from eight EU...Mon, 11 Feb 2019 04:35:00 +0100.

Volunteers from 14 European volunteer civil protection teams took part in a 24-hour simulation exercise modelled on the eventuality of a Maltese earthquake. The 70 volunteers wrapped up the Simulex19 simulation, which was organised by the E
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38 volunteers conclude Malta exercise to cope with national emergencie ... Sun, 10 Feb 2019 15:43:00 +0100.

Maltese volunteers within the Emergency Fire and Rescue Unit, together with volunteers from seven European countries, have concluded an exercise in Malta aimed at ensuring preparedness in the event of a national emergency. The training, whi
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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),