M 6.3 in Morocco on 25 Jan 2016 04:22 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 1079161
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 15 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.73 , -3.74
Event Date: 25 Jan 2016 04:22 UTC
25 Jan 2016 04:22 Local
Exposed Population: 845457 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Jan 2016 09:00 UTC
Maximum Wave Height observed: 0.05 m

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.7 0.7
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=484213 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),