M 5.9 in Australia on 20 May 2016 18:14 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 1086630
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -25.5343 , 129.8053
Event Date: 20 May 2016 18:14 UTC
21 May 2016 03:44 Local
Exposed Population: Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 May 2016 18:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),