M 5.9 in Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 23 Jul 2018 10:36 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 1151274
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -0.3497 , -19.234
Event Date: 23 Jul 2018 10:36 UTC
23 Jul 2018 09:36 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Jul 2018 10:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000gbr3 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 238 | About casualties: 16 | Last hour: 0

Calls for multilingual alert systems grow in Japan as visitors crowd m ... Fri, 27 Jul 2018 10:12:00 +0200.

OSAKA – As the continuing tourism boom packs public transportation systems nationwide, developing multilingual emergency alerts is becoming a top priority. In public transport emergencies, there are often no emergency announcements in Engli
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Four quakes hit the mountainous districts of Quang NamFri, 27 Jul 2018 07:41:00 +0200.

VietNamNet Bridge – Four earthquakes, measuring from 2.7 to 3.5 on the Richter scale, hit Bac Tra My and Nam Tra My districts in the central province of Quang Nam on Thursday morning (July 26), but no damage or casualties were reported. Lo
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Turks, Greeks hold vigils for victims of Greece wildfireThu, 26 Jul 2018 23:17:00 +0200.

Condolences pour in for the victims of wildfires in Turkey's neighbor Greece. A group of Turks and Greeks came together for a vigil late Wednesday in memory of 82 people that died in fires on the east and west coasts of Greece's Attica regi
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Little warning for Aucklanders if eruption imminent 45 minutes ago The ... Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:09:00 +0200.

Aucklanders might not have as much time to evacuate in the event of a volcanic eruption as previously thought. New research by Kiwi volcanologists has found there could be as little as five days between the first detection of activity benea
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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),