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  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 855 | About casualties: 17 | Last hour: 0

Villars-sur-Glâne, terre de désolationThu, 22 Dec 2016 03:06:00 +0100.

le mot de la fin. Lu l’autre jour dans mon journal, qui est aussi le vôtre, ce titre à propos de Villars-sur-Glâne: «Le renvoi du budget crée un séisme.» Oui Madame, un séisme. Vous savez, vous, si les secouristes ont retrouvé des survivant
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What's the risk of a natural disaster in New Zealand and around the wo ... Thu, 22 Dec 2016 01:26:00 +0100.

New Zealand is precariously situated, jutting skyward between two colossal tectonic plates, slap bang in the middle of a deep ocean, and vulnerable to tsunami, earthquakes, storms, floods, and volcanic activity. A deadly natural disaster is
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Juegos Olímpicos Tokio costarán $15 mil millonesThu, 22 Dec 2016 00:47:00 +0100.

La estimación oficial anunciada el miércoles estaba ligeramente por debajo del límite prometido de 2 billones de yenes (17.000 millones de dólares), mientras los organizadores intentan reducir aún más la cifra. “Esta es la primera versión”,
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Sismo de 5,4 sacudió el sur de PerúWed, 21 Dec 2016 23:53:00 +0100.

Un sismo de magnitud 5,4 en la escala de Richter se registró este miércoles en la región andina de Huancavelica, al sureste de Perú, sin que se reporten víctimas o daños materiales, informó el Instituto Geofísico del Perú (IGP). El temblor
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

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