M 6 in Prince Edward Islands Region on 19 Apr 2018 21:09 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 1140779
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -42.7797 , 42.1877
Event Date: 19 Apr 2018 21:09 UTC
20 Apr 2018 00:09 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Apr 2018 23:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000dnuj Scaled population (vector) -8  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 9 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

PM O’Neill begins CHOGM meetings with courtesy call to the Duke of Yor ... Sun, 22 Apr 2018 04:49:00 +0200.

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill has begun his range of high level meetings at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) with a courtesy call to Prince Andrew The Duke of York. During the meeting at Buckingham Palac
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PM O’Neill begins CHOGM meetings with courtesy call to the Duke of Yor ... Sat, 21 Apr 2018 04:30:00 +0200.

LONDON, 20 APRIL 2018 (PNG PM OFFICE) – Papua New Guinea Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill CMG MP, has begun his range of high-level meetings at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) with a courtesy call to Prince Andrew The Duke
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Knockbridge father and daughter volunteer in Haiti new Knockbridge fat ... Sat, 14 Apr 2018 01:22:00 +0200.

They are among a group of 36 volunteers who are travelling to the small commune of Gressier, located two hours south-west of Haiti's capital, Port au Prince, where people are still working to rebuild their lives after the devastating earthq
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Belmont man travels to Haiti for annual volunteer programmeTue, 10 Apr 2018 20:38:00 +0200.

. Thursday, 12 April 2018. Noel Ryan who is heading to Haite with Haven. MT15108JOC. HAVEN, a prominent Irish NGO working on the ground in Haiti, is undertaking its twelfth volunteer trip to Haiti from April 13-22. Long-term volunteer, Noel
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),