M 5.6 in Romania on 23 Sep 2016 23:11 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 1094553
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 94 Km
Lat/Lon: 45.76 , 26.63
Event Date: 23 Sep 2016 23:11 UTC
24 Sep 2016 02:11 Local
Exposed Population: 1924117 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Sep 2016 23:46 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC n.a n.a
532801 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
Satellite products
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 641 | About casualties: 73 | Last hour: 0

'Garbarge' delivers tonnes of marine debris recovered from B.C. coastTue, 27 Sep 2016 21:44:00 +0200.

A vessel dubbed the "garbarge" delivers a payload of marine debris that was collected at remote Vancouver Island beaches over the past seven months. Sept. 27, 2016. (CTV) CTV Vancouver Published Tuesday, September 27, 2016 12:15PM PDT A b
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Cancelan alerta de tsunami en todo el litoral peruanoTue, 27 Sep 2016 20:21:00 +0200.

. La Dirección de Hidrografía y Navegación de la Marina de Guerra del Perú canceló la alerta de tsunami en todo el litoral tras el sismo de 7.8 grados registrado en Ecuador. No obstante recomendó a la población no acercarse a las playas po
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40 tonnes of ocean garbage collected off Vancouver Island, unloaded in ... Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:45:00 +0200.

A barge filled with 40 tonnes of marine debris gathered by hundreds of volunteers from the west coast of Vancouver Island docked in Richmond Monday night. Most of the debris collected, including fishing gear, industrial waste and Styrofoam,
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World: Europe to strengthen tsunami alert systemTue, 27 Sep 2016 17:04:00 +0200.

By Jonathan Fowler. BUCHAREST, 27 September 2016 – Nations on the North Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Seas have decided to bolster their tsunami warning systems by giving France, Greece, Italy and Turkey a regionwide alert role. The dec
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),