M 5.2 in Southwest Of Africa on 18 Jan 2017 02:02 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 1103448
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -52.9489 , 9.9922
Event Date: 18 Jan 2017 02:02 UTC
18 Jan 2017 03:02 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Jan 2017 02:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007tup 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: 425 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

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Sarah Frias-Torres, la bióloga catalana que está recuperando el coral ... Sun, 22 Jan 2017 01:03:00 +0100.

El fenómeno oceanográfico “El Niño” en 1998 y el tsunami en el océano Índico de 2004 arrasaron el 97% de los corales de las islas Seychelles. La subida de las temperaturas y el fuerte oleaje fueron devastadores para el ecosistema subacuátic
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New study will help find the best locations for thermal power stations ... Sat, 21 Jan 2017 22:05:00 +0100.

Volcanic eruption. Credit: Erik Sturkell. A new research article, with lead authors from the University of Gothenburg, gives indications of the best places in Iceland to build thermal power stations. In Iceland, heat is extracted for use i
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Gobierno ecuatoriano ha invertido USD 10,2 millones en implementación ... Sat, 21 Jan 2017 20:39:00 +0100.

Quito, 21 ene (Andes).- El Gobierno ecuatoriano ha invertido hasta el momento 10,2 millones de dólares en la implementación de un sistema de alerta temprana de tsunamis, informó este sábado el director del Servicio Integrado de Seguridad Ec
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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),