M 4.5 in North Of Svalbard on 08 May 2017 04:48 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 1112388
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 81.74 , -4.67
Event Date: 08 May 2017 04:48 UTC
08 May 2017 04:48 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 May 2017 07:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0 0
590330 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

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),