M 5.5 in Antarctica on 23 Jun 2016 03:05 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 1088662
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -60.6687 , -42.9516
Event Date: 23 Jun 2016 03:05 UTC
23 Jun 2016 00:05 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Jun 2016 03:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000665g Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 360 | About casualties: 41 | Last hour: 0

EU asegura que el Brexit es un ‘tsunami’…Mon, 27 Jun 2016 02:39:00 +0200.

Mari Carmen Aponte, subsecretaria estadounidense para el Hemisferio Occidental, aseguró que la salida del Reino Unido de la Unión Europea (UE) es un tsunami que tarde o temprano va a tocar a Latinoamérica. “Definitivamente que va a tocar a
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Ecuador: Experiencia japonesa para cubrir etapa posterremotoMon, 27 Jun 2016 01:08:00 +0200.

Que el Gobierno y la comunidad entiendan el riesgo de tsunami que tienen las ciudades costeras ecuatorianas y evitar la recurrencia de la misma vulnerabilidad, fueron las recomendaciones que dio al Ecuador Goto Ko, director de la Agencia de
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Scottish roller coaster derails 65 feet above ground, 11 injuredMon, 27 Jun 2016 00:53:00 +0200.

Emergency responders have descended upon a theme park in Motherwell, Scotland, after a roller coaster came off the tracks and plummeted dozens of feet to the ground, according to news reports. The nightmarish scene unfolded around 4 p.m. Su
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شاهد.. عربة ملاه تخرج عن قضبانها في مدينة ألعاب.. سقطت من ارتفاع 9 أمت ... Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:41:00 +0200.

قالت صحيفة “دايلي ريكورد”: إن عربة ملاه خرجت عن قضبانها في مدينة ألعاب بإسكتلندا اليوم، وسقطت من ارتفاع تسعة أمتار في منطقة مخصصة للأطفال. وأوضحت الشرطة إنها أصابت 11 شخصًا، فيما بيّن شهود أن العربة التي تحمل تسعة أشخاص في لعبة يطلق عليها ا
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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.
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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),