M 5.7 in Iceland on 21 Oct 2012 01:25 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 120350
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 9.9 Km
Lat/Lon: 66.2961 , -18.6852
Event Date: 21 Oct 2012 01:25 UTC
21 Oct 2012 01:25 Local
Exposed Population:
About 20387 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Oct 2012 02:46 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
usb000d9x3 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.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 349 | About casualties: 16 | Last hour: 0

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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: Icelandic Met Office (1), EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),