M 5.4 in Southeast Indian Ridge on 21 Jul 2018 20:56 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 1151093
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -48.2198 , 99.7328
Event Date: 21 Jul 2018 20:56 UTC
22 Jul 2018 03:56 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jul 2018 21:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000gaxd Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 59 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

Moderate earthquake hits Ryukyu Islands of JapanWed, 25 Jul 2018 07:48:00 +0200.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 25 (Bernama) -- A moderate earthquake, measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale, struck southeast of the Ryukyu Islands of Japan at 12.20 pm today, said the Malaysian Meteorological Department. It said in a statement that the e
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Lava flow from fissure 8 may go on for months or yearsTue, 24 Jul 2018 12:27:00 +0200.

The authors said the sustained flow of magma from the summit so far leads them to believe it will be some time before the eruption ends. The range of duration is broad and remains unpredictable, scientists said Monday afternoon during a pho
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Magnitude 5.8 quake hits southeast IranMon, 23 Jul 2018 17:49:00 +0200.

At least 79 people were injured on Monday when a magnitude 5.8 earthquake shook southeastern Iran, just a day after another quake injured nearly 290 people in the west. The quake struck in the early morning on Monday near the village of Si
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Southern Iran rattled by earthquake; 79 hurtMon, 23 Jul 2018 16:59:00 +0200.

World Bulletin / News Desk. A moderate earthquake shook southern Iran Monday morning, injuring at least 79 people, according to reports on Iranian state television. The quake’s epicenter was reportedly located near the village of Sirch in I
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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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),