M 6.3 in Southeast Indian Ridge on 24 Mar 2018 19:58 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 1138443
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -45.8299 , 96.099
Event Date: 24 Mar 2018 19:58 UTC
25 Mar 2018 01:58 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Mar 2018 20:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us1000d8ny Scaled population (vector) -8 Max wave scenario 0.51m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 55 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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Update: 11:41AM A STRONG 6.4 magnitude earthquake was recorded in eastern Indonesia this morning triggering a brief tsunami alert. The Seismology Unit of the Suva-based Mineral Resources department reported that the earthquake occurred at a
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Moderate earthquake at Banda sea, IndonesiaSun, 25 Mar 2018 12:11:00 +0200.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 (Bernama) -- A moderate earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 on the Richter scale struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia at 4.58pm today, according to the Malaysian Meteorological Department. A statement from the department sa
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Tonga region records 5.3 mag quakeSun, 25 Mar 2018 05:19:00 +0200.

Update: 3:06PM THE Tonga Islands region recorded a 5.3 magnitude earthquake at about 2pm today. The Seismology Unit of the Mineral Resources department based in Suva said the earthquake occurred at a depth of 10km. It was located 231km Sout
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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 (88), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (2), NOAA (1),