M 5.5 in Southwest Of Africa on 03 Aug 2021 06:43 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 1279928
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -52.7939 , 18.4071
Event Date: 03 Aug 2021 06:43 UTC
03 Aug 2021 07:43 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 04 Aug 2021 15:26 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000f1sc Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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

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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),