M 4.8 in Eritrea on 07 Mar 2016 22:43 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 1082050
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 17.6795 , 40.2546
Event Date: 07 Mar 2016 22:43 UTC
08 Mar 2016 01:43 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Mar 2016 23:03 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  
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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), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),