M 4.8 in Australia on 28 May 2016 15:30 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 1087138
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 9.74 Km
Lat/Lon: -32.3981 , 122.4233
Event Date: 28 May 2016 15:30 UTC
28 May 2016 23:30 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1930 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 May 2016 16:48 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  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),