M 4.5 in Iceland on 29 Dec 2021 14:46 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 1303913
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 6.02 Km
Lat/Lon: 64.5192 , -17.6903
Event Date: 29 Dec 2021 14:46 UTC
29 Dec 2021 14:46 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 30 Dec 2021 05:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.9 (Iceland)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gg4s Scaled population (vector) 2.12  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.62  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),