M 5 in Christmas Island on 29 Jul 2016 09:07 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 1090869
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -9.5253 , 107.0091
Event Date: 29 Jul 2016 09:07 UTC
29 Jul 2016 16:07 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Jul 2016 09:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100068ba 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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Meteo assessment
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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), INFORM (2), USGS (2),