M 5.3 in United States on 20 Jun 2018 14:22 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 1146747
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 0.21 Km
Lat/Lon: 19.4145 , -155.286
Event Date: 20 Jun 2018 14:22 UTC
20 Jun 2018 04:22 Local
Exposed Population:
180000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Jun 2018 15:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
HVO 0 0
hv70294636 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 120 | About casualties: 18 | Last hour: 0

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Vanuatu thumped by magnitude 6.1 earthquake 21 minutes agoFri, 22 Jun 2018 01:44:00 +0200.

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck off the coast of the Vanuatu capital Port Vila. The United States Geological Survey reports the earthquake struck at 9.13am (NZ time) 33km west-southwest of Port Vila, at a depth of 22km. 6.1 earthquake
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Vanuatu thumped by magnitude 6.1 earthquakeFri, 22 Jun 2018 01:21:00 +0200.

On the go and no time to finish that story right now? Your News is the place for you to save content to read later from any device. Register with us and content you save will appear here so you can access them to read later. A magnitude 6.
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'Microearthquake' hit N.J. early Thursday. Did you feel it?Thu, 21 Jun 2018 19:17:00 +0200.

Though you might not have felt it, an earthquake hit South Jersey this morning. The United States Geological Survey reported a magnitude 1.6 earthquake occurred at 12:28 a.m. Thursday near the Leisuretown section of Southampton Township in
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), HVO (1), USGS (2),