M 5.1 in Southern East Pacific Rise on 18 Dec 2016 06:15 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 1101187
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -34.9152 , -107.7953
Event Date: 18 Dec 2016 06:15 UTC
17 Dec 2016 23:15 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Dec 2016 06:38 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000826e 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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Latest media headlines

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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 (40), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),