M 6.2 in Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 14 Feb 2019 19:57 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 1170824
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.4364 , -36.0923
Event Date: 14 Feb 2019 19:57 UTC
14 Feb 2019 17:57 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Feb 2019 20:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us2000ji4e 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 1      
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 194 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

Three earthquakes registering over 3.0 magnitude hit Utah in less than ... Mon, 18 Feb 2019 01:12:00 +0100.

The Utah Department of Public Safety said Friday's earthquakes were reported by more than 7,000 people in the Salt Lake Valely and Utah Valley area. The University of Utah Seismograph Stations noted that Bluffdale then experienced a 2.4 mag
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Illegal sand mining, soil erosion threaten Sleshmantak forestSun, 17 Feb 2019 04:19:00 +0100.

Feb 17, 2019- The illegal mining of sand and soil in the eastern and northern parts of Vishwarup Temple, near the Sleshmantak forest, is proving to be a great threat to the area and to its status of being a Unesco World Heritage Site. Illeg
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Ben Lowry: Sinn Fein said the Stormont talks were a ‘sham’ but perhaps ... Sat, 16 Feb 2019 11:21:00 +0100.

Perhaps, also, the DUP is not particularly determined to see the return of Stormont just now. But the big question, to which very few people know the answer, is whether or not Sinn Fein’s participation in the talks was, to use Mary Lou McDo
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Earthquakes today MAPPED: Utah quake jolts people awake as quakes stri ... Fri, 15 Feb 2019 18:00:00 +0100.

The magnitude 3.7 struck Utah south of Salt Lake City at 5.09am local time (12.09pm), according to a report from the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The quake struck 2km south of Bluffdale, but there have been no reports of infrastr
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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 (91), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (2), NOAA (1),