M 5.8 in Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 03 Aug 2018 18:50 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 1152653
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -0.9148 , -21.9784
Event Date: 03 Aug 2018 18:50 UTC
03 Aug 2018 17:50 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Aug 2018 16:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000g2vt Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 537 | About casualties: 54 | Last hour: 0

VNPT, Đà Nẵng agree on ‘smart’ city developmentTue, 07 Aug 2018 18:08:00 +0200.

ĐÀ NẴNG — The central city, in co-operation with the Việt Nam Posts and Telecommunications (VNPT) Group has officially signed an agreement for the ‘smart city’ project over the next two years. The agreement will help develop information tec
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Suben a 105 las víctimas mortales del terremoto de IndonesiaTue, 07 Aug 2018 17:47:00 +0200.

Las autoridades de Indonesia elevaron hoy a 105 la cifra de muertos por el seísmo de 6,9 grados que sacudió la isla de Lombok el domingo pasado, mientras prosiguen las operaciones de búsqueda de supervivientes y desescombro. "Hasta hoy, el
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Sube a 105 la cifra de muertos en Indonesia tras terremotoTue, 07 Aug 2018 17:19:00 +0200.

Tanjung, Indonesia, (EFE).- Las autoridades de Indonesia elevaron hoy a 105 la cifra de muertos por el seísmo de 6,9 grados que sacudió la isla de Lombok el domingo pasado, mientras prosiguen las operaciones de búsqueda de supervivientes y
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Suben a 105 las víctimas mortales del terremoto de IndonesiaTue, 07 Aug 2018 17:02:00 +0200.

Las autoridades de Indonesia elevaron este martes a 105 la cifra de muertos por el sismo de 6,9 grados que sacudió la isla de Lombok el domingo pasado, mientras prosiguen las operaciones de búsqueda de sobrevivientes y desescombro. "Hasta h
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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),