M 5.8 in Southwest Of Africa on 14 Mar 2016 23:25 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 1082496
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -52.64 , 18.8566
Event Date: 14 Mar 2016 23:25 UTC
15 Mar 2016 00:25 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Mar 2016 23:45 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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),