M 5.8 in Cuba on 17 Jan 2017 09:08 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 1103403
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 19.8664 , -76.6062
Event Date: 17 Jan 2017 09:08 UTC
17 Jan 2017 04:08 Local
Exposed Population: About 9000 people in MMI
1710000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jan 2017 18:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.1 (Cuba)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.6 0.6
us10007tmh Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 427 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Four more survivors extracted from Italian hotel hit by avalancheSat, 21 Jan 2017 08:09:00 +0100.

. PENNE, Italy - Four people were pulled alive from the wreckage of a luxury hotel that was demolished on Wednesday by a deadly avalanche, bringing the number of survivors to nine, the national fire service said on Saturday. The two men an
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Friends of Denmark offering series of Centennial lecturesSat, 21 Jan 2017 08:09:00 +0100.

A series of eight history lectures are set to begin as part of the Centennial Commission’s recognition of the 100th anniversary of the transfer of the former Danish West Indies to the United States. “Community members are urged to come out
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Four more survivors extracted from Italian hotel hit by avalancheSat, 21 Jan 2017 07:57:00 +0100.

PENNE, Italy Four people were pulled alive from the wreckage of a luxury hotel that was demolished on Wednesday by a deadly avalanche, bringing the number of survivors to nine, the national fire service said on Saturday. The two men and two
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Four more survivors from Italian hotelSat, 21 Jan 2017 07:54:00 +0100.

Four more people have been pulled alive from the wreckage of a luxury hotel that was demolished on Wednesday by a deadly avalanche, bringing the number of survivors to nine, the national fire service says. The two men and two women were ext
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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), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),