M 5.4 in Norway on 17 Nov 2019 06:18 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 1193975
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -54.0765 , 6.1345
Event Date: 17 Nov 2019 06:18 UTC
17 Nov 2019 06:18 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Nov 2019 06:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Norway)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000692c Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 5 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Tsunami warning: Britain could be hit by 30m wave - Professor warns of ... Sat, 16 Nov 2019 10:08:00 +0100.

While many believe the British Isles are not classically associated with seismic activity such as earthquakes and tsunamis, there is evidence that it has been hit before. One such example is the Storegga landslide off the coast of Norway wh
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Bill McGuire: Greenland's ice sheet might freeze UKTue, 05 Nov 2019 10:50:00 +0100.

Professor Bill McGuire has a long history of researching and publishing peer-reviewed scientific papers on how the solid Earth responds to changes and how those responses affect civilisation. His findings are often as awe-inspiring as they
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Bill McGuire: Greenland's ice sheet might freeze UKTue, 05 Nov 2019 10:10:00 +0100.

Professor Bill McGuire has a long history of researching and publishing peer-reviewed scientific papers on how the solid Earth responds to changes and how those responses affect civilisation. His findings are often as awe-inspiring as they
...(more)
Le Royaume-Uni suspend la fracturation hydraulique de gaz de schisteSat, 02 Nov 2019 18:31:00 +0100.

Le gouvernement de Boris Johnson a fait volte-face , après avoir vanté les mérites de la fracture hydraulique, procédé coûteux qui permet d'extraire le gaz de schiste et le pétrole des sous-sols. Le Royaume-Uni avait également soutenu cette
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),