M 5.7 in Galapagos Islands Region on 21 Sep 2018 12:49 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 1157243
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 2.4156 , -95.4785
Event Date: 21 Sep 2018 12:49 UTC
21 Sep 2018 06:49 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Sep 2018 13:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000hi48 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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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Volcano news - Archive Nr. 23Sat, 25 Aug 2018 15:21:00 +0200.

Via Smithsonian Institution - Global Volcanism Program / US Geological Survey's Volcano Hazards Program. Ambae | Vanuatu According to news articles and the Vanuatu Red Cross, residents of Ambae began to evacuate the island during 1-8 August
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),