M 6.7 in East Of South Sandwich Islands on 24 Oct 2013 19:25 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 1009923
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.7M
Depth: 26.09 Km
Lat/Lon: -58.21 , -12.95
Event Date: 24 Oct 2013 19:25 UTC
24 Oct 2013 18:25 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Oct 2013 20:59 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1349 | About casualties: 47 | Last hour: 0

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Japón emite alerta de tsunamiSat, 26 Oct 2013 00:24:00 +0200.

Las autoridades japonesas han emitido alerta amarilla por el tsunami de un metro
Kleine tsunami na beving JapanSat, 26 Oct 2013 00:23:00 +0200.

De Japanse oostkust is geraakt door een kleine tsunami na een aardbeving voor de kust. Schade is er niet of nauwelijks, omdat de golven uiteindelijk maar zo'n veertig centimeter hoog waren.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (81), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), (3), INFORM (2), USGS (2), NOAA (1),