M 4.6 in Comoros on 01 Oct 2015 21:47 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 1067827
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 15.11 Km
Lat/Lon: -12.4728 , 44.5278
Event Date: 01 Oct 2015 21:47 UTC
02 Oct 2015 00:47 Local
Exposed Population:
561842 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Oct 2015 22:59 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),