M 4.7 in Australia on 29 Apr 2014 09:54 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 1030712
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 15.39 Km
Lat/Lon: -32.7365 , 139.5373
Event Date: 29 Apr 2014 09:54 UTC
29 Apr 2014 19:24 Local
Exposed Population:
About 5034 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Apr 2014 10:12 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),