M 5.9 in Southwest Indian Ridge on 29 Apr 2018 22:23 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 1141593
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -39.257 , 46.0994
Event Date: 29 Apr 2018 22:23 UTC
30 Apr 2018 01:23 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Apr 2018 22:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000dugu Scaled population (vector) -8  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 131 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

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4 Earthquake Injures 76 in Southwest IranThu, 03 May 2018 13:38:00 +0200.

The 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck near the city of Sisakht at about 8.30 am local time on Wednesday injuring dozens of people. An earthquake injured at least 76 people and damaged buildings in the southwestern Iranian city of Sisakht on
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Earthquake injures at least 76 in southwest IranWed, 02 May 2018 18:59:00 +0200.

An earthquake injured at least 76 people and damaged buildings in the southwestern Iranian city of Sisakht on Wednesday morning, state media reported. The 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck just after 8:30 a.m. local time (0408 GMT), the Natio
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Earthquake injures at least 76 in southwest IranWed, 02 May 2018 16:31:00 +0200.

The 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck just after 8:30 a.m. local time. BEIRUT, May 2 (Reuters) - An earthquake injured at least 76 people and damaged buildings in the southwestern Iranian city of Sisakht on Wednesday morning, state media repo
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),