M 4.5 in Svalbard and Jan Mayen on 12 Oct 2017 15:50 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 1123671
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 5 Km
Lat/Lon: 71.45 , -3.91
Event Date: 12 Oct 2017 15:50 UTC
12 Oct 2017 15:50 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Oct 2017 17:26 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Jan Mayen)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
623732 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),