M 6.6 in United States on 15 Aug 2018 21:56 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 1153849
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Depth: 20 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.435 , -178.0543
Event Date: 15 Aug 2018 21:56 UTC
15 Aug 2018 12:56 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Aug 2018 23:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us1000ga0z Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.65      
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 358 | About casualties: 20 | Last hour: 0

Dos fuertes sismos remecen la isla de Lombok, IndonesiaSun, 19 Aug 2018 21:00:00 +0200.

Dos fuertes sismos se sintieron el domingo en la isla turística de Lombok, Indonesia, sin que hasta el momento se reporten personas lesionadas o fallecidas. El Servicio Geológico de los Estados Unidos informó que el sismo el domingo en la n
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Magnitude 7.2 quake strikes in sea off LombokSun, 19 Aug 2018 20:19:00 +0200.

A MAGNITUDE 7.2 earthquake struck in the sea 124 kilometers north-northeast of the holiday island of Lombok, Indonesia, yesterday at a very shallow depth of 1km, the United States Geological Survey said. There was no immediate tsunami alert
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Un nuevo terremoto de magnitud 6,9 sacude la isla indonesia de LombokSun, 19 Aug 2018 20:10:00 +0200.

YAKARTA | Un nuevo terremoto de 6,9 grados en la escala de Richter se produjo hoy en la isla indonesia de Lombok, en la misma zona donde a principios de mes otro seísmo causó al menos 460 muertos, informó el Servicio Geológico de Estados Un
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Dos fuertes sismos remecen la isla de Lombok, IndonesiaSun, 19 Aug 2018 19:55:00 +0200.

El Servicio Geológico de los Estados Unidos informó que el sismo el domingo en la noche tuvo una magnitud de 6.9 y tuvo una profundidad de 20 kilómetros (12 millas). Horas antes, en la mañana, otro movimiento de magnitud 6.3 sacudió la isla
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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 (88), (5), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),