M 5.5 in North Of Ascension Island on 16 Jan 2020 09:58 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 1201961
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.1069 , -17.0858
Event Date: 16 Jan 2020 09:58 UTC
16 Jan 2020 08:58 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jan 2020 10:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us700070uj Scaled population (raster) 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 468 | About casualties: 36 | Last hour: 0

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Xinjiang earthquake kills 1, injures 2Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:54:00 +0100.

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake has killed one person and slightly injured two others in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, authorities said Monday. Authorities have recorded 10 aftershocks above the magnitude of 3, with the hig
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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),