M 5 in Southwest Indian Ridge on 18 Dec 2016 03:30 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 1101177
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.2226 , 61.1142
Event Date: 18 Dec 2016 03:30 UTC
18 Dec 2016 07:30 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Dec 2016 03:53 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000824t 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

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),