M 5.6 in Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 22 Mar 2020 20:43 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 1211089
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -0.7024 , -21.0407
Event Date: 22 Mar 2020 20:43 UTC
22 Mar 2020 19:43 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Mar 2020 21:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70008e74 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Nation: Mystic manga foreshadowed 2020 Olympics' demiseThu, 26 Mar 2020 12:57:00 +0100.

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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),