M 4.5 in Antigua and Barbuda on 15 Apr 2017 18:16 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 1110341
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 31.93 Km
Lat/Lon: 17.4734 , -61.2213
Event Date: 15 Apr 2017 18:16 UTC
15 Apr 2017 14:16 Local
Exposed Population:
About 90000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Apr 2017 18:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Antigua & Barbuda)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008hxr Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Bringing the animals of the jungle to life in the stage show Running W.. 4/20/2017 11:30:00 AM.

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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),