M 5.9 in Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 24 May 2020 02:52 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 1219443
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -47.4139 , -12.2226
Event Date: 24 May 2020 02:52 UTC
24 May 2020 01:52 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 May 2020 03:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70009pag 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: 124 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

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By Durba Chattaraj Some places have a deeper acquaintance with cataclysm than others -- the Easter Islands, Ephesus, Pompeii. We know not exactly why. We might know that an earthquake in 262 AD, after a series of other disasters, destroyed
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Features of soil behavior in the near-fault zones during the 2011 Toho ... Wed, 27 May 2020 07:55:00 +0200.

Soil behavior is studied during the Tohoku earthquake, where abnormally high accelerations > 1 g were recorded. Based on vertical array records, models of soil behavior are constructed at 28 sites in northern Honshu (Tohoku region). They ar
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Why Puerto Rico’s Tectonic Setting Makes Earthquakes InevitableWed, 27 May 2020 06:20:00 +0200.

. Since being severely shaken and damaged in January by a stout M6.4, plus a handful of M5+ temblors , the seismic sequence had settled into a pattern of moderate magnitude quakes, rarely exceeding M4.0 And with the onset of the novel coron
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Oregon scientists develop a more accurate way to date past earthquakesWed, 27 May 2020 02:22:00 +0200.

Scientists in Oregon have developed a technique that could lead to more accurate dating of historic earthquakes. The work by researchers at Portland State University and the University of Oregon, published in the Bulletin of the Seismologic
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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),