M 6.1 in Australia on 08 Sep 2016 21:46 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 1093568
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -54.6416 , 158.6036
Event Date: 08 Sep 2016 21:46 UTC
09 Sep 2016 08:46 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Sep 2016 22:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006n6r 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.
Virtual OSOCC
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 (48), (3), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),