M 4.8 in Iceland on 01 Mar 2021 01:31 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 1257953
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 64.1319 , -22.1739
Event Date: 01 Mar 2021 01:31 UTC
01 Mar 2021 01:31 Local
Exposed Population:
260000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Mar 2021 01:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.9 (Iceland)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us7000deg9 Scaled population (vector) 6.33  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.62  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),