M 5.6 in Antarctica on 10 Aug 2018 18:09 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 1153271
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -62.6308 , 165.659
Event Date: 10 Aug 2018 18:09 UTC
11 Aug 2018 05:09 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Aug 2018 16:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Antarctica)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000g6hd Scaled population (vector) 0  
  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

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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),