M 7.1 in Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 13 Feb 2015 18:59 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 1048513
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.1M
Depth: 13.78 Km
Lat/Lon: 52.6693 , -31.9244
Event Date: 13 Feb 2015 18:59 UTC
13 Feb 2015 16:59 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Feb 2015 20:37 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
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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.
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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 (81), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), (3), INFORM (2), USGS (2), NOAA (1),