M 5.4 in Yemen on 19 Sep 2018 08:53 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 1157058
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 10.4759 , 57.0225
Event Date: 19 Sep 2018 08:53 UTC
19 Sep 2018 12:53 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Sep 2018 09:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Yemen)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000hh11 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 17 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Niños sin escuela, Yemen... Las noticias del miércolesWed, 19 Sep 2018 17:37:00 +0200.

Uno de cada cinco niños en el mundo no va a la escuela. Más de 300 millones de niños en todo el mundo, una quinta parte del total, no van a la escuela, según denuncia UNICEF en un informe publicado hoy en el que destaca que en los países en
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World: 115,000 people evacuate in the Indian Ocean-wide tsunami exerci ... Tue, 18 Sep 2018 11:21:00 +0200.

A record 115,000 people in the Indian Ocean region evacuated during the tsunami exercise Indian Ocean Wave 2018 (IOWave18) conducted on 4-5 September 2018. The exercise was coordinated by UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
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115,000 people evacuate in the Indian Ocean-wide tsunami exerciseTue, 18 Sep 2018 04:33:00 +0200.

A record 115,000 people in the Indian Ocean region evacuated during the tsunami exercise Indian Ocean Wave 2018 (IOWave18) conducted on 4-5 September 2018. The exercise was coordinated by UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
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Earthquake hits the southern region in SaudiSun, 09 Sep 2018 19:52:00 +0200.

Riyadh An earthquake measured four degrees on the Richter Scale struck in the governorate of Dhahran Al-Janub, in the province of Asir. The Saudi Geological Survey (SGS) seismological stations detected the quake at 07:29:10 am this morning.
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),