M 5.8 in Southeast Indian Ridge on 06 Aug 2017 19:32 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 1118696
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -47.3201 , 99.756
Event Date: 06 Aug 2017 19:32 UTC
07 Aug 2017 02:32 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Aug 2017 19:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000a5dp Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 567 | About casualties: 35 | Last hour: 0

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Bomba da II Guerra Mundial encontrada na central nuclear de FukushimaThu, 10 Aug 2017 18:43:00 +0200.

Passados 72 anos sobre o fim da II Guerra Mundial, foi encontrada uma bomba, esta quinta-feira, no terreno da central nuclear de Fukushima , no Japão, que está a ser desmantelada por ter sido fortemente afetada pelo tsunami de março de 2011
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Накроет с головой: В США предрекли России крупнейшее эмиграционное цун ... Thu, 10 Aug 2017 18:38:00 +0200.

Россия является одной из мощнейших стран мира. При этом западные пропагандисты, в подавляющей большинстве из США, пытаются убедить всех вокруг, что в России все «плохо», а все россияне мечтают уехать из страны. В очередной раз «спрогнозиров
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Tui und das Last-Minute-Geschäft: Urlaubsziel Türkei drohen EngpässeThu, 10 Aug 2017 18:35:00 +0200.

Noch bis Ende Mai sah es für das Land, das bei deutschen Touristen traditionell zu den beliebtesten Ferienzielen gehört, düster aus. Nur 864.000 Bundesbürger zählte das Tourismusministerium in Ankara in den ersten fünf Monaten des Jahres –
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),