M 4.8 in Iceland on 21 Oct 2012 00:10 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 120340
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 2 Km
Lat/Lon: 66.4 , -20.52
Event Date: 21 Oct 2012 00:10 UTC
21 Oct 2012 00:10 Local
Exposed Population:
About 7000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Oct 2012 01:55 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.5 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 96 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

'Gas leak may have caused blast'Sun, 21 Oct 2012 02:19:00 +0200.

SEREMBAN: A gas leak during the installation of a tsunami buoy in Pulau Sipadan could be the cause of an explosion that killed Stig Erik Lyng.
En las entrañas de 'Lo imposible'Sun, 21 Oct 2012 01:53:00 +0200.

Tan sólo trece segundos pueden cambiar una vida? Sí. No una, sino miles. El tsunami que asoló el sudeste asiático en 2004 duró trece eternos y letales segundos. La fuerza del agua funcionó como una perfecta arma de destrucción masiva. Se im
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Turtles hatched in aquarium releasedSun, 21 Oct 2012 00:34:00 +0200.

TOKYO, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Seventy young loggerhead turtles hatched in an aquarium after their nesting beach was eroded by last year's Japanese tsunami have been returned to the sea.
Manga artists back Tohoku with signature heroes projectSat, 20 Oct 2012 20:37:00 +0200.

Eight renowned manga artists will draw up new cartoons featuring heroes and heroines from their signature works and donate the royalties to Tohoku's reconstruction, one of them said. The "Heroes Comeback" project is the brainchild of cartoo
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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 (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),