M 4.6 in Iceland on 28 Feb 2021 19:01 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 1257913
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 63.9956 , -22.0617
Event Date: 28 Feb 2021 19:01 UTC
28 Feb 2021 19:01 Local
Exposed Population:
260000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Feb 2021 19:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.9 (Iceland)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000dee1 Scaled population (vector) 6.32  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.62  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 45 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Secouée par des tremblements de terre, l'Islande se prépare à une poss ... Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:38:00 +0100.

Un fort séisme dans la région a été suivi par des milliers de secousses qui pourraient indiquer la montée de magma vers la surface. Si l'éruption devait se produire, elle ne serait certainement pas "explosive", estiment les scientifiques. ©
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Secouée par des tremblements de terre, l'Islande se prépare à une poss ... Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:06:00 +0100.

Un fort séisme dans la région a été suivi par des milliers de secousses qui pourraient indiquer la montée de magma vers la surface. Si l'éruption devait se produire, elle ne serait certainement pas "explosive", estiment les scientifiques.
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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),