M 4.2 in Tunisia on 17 Jan 2013 05:49 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 121996
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.2M
Depth: 2 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.16 , 9.41
Event Date: 17 Jan 2013 05:49 UTC
17 Jan 2013 06:49 Local
Exposed Population:
1680000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jan 2013 07:55 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.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 102 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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El presidente y consejero delegado de la filial estadounidense de Toyota, James Lentz , indicó hoy en una entrevista con Efe que para la empresa volver al número uno en ventas a nivel mundial no es tan importante como seguir presentando nov
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),