M 5.5 in South Of Africa on 22 Aug 2018 20:26 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 1154653
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -52.7519 , 27.9519
Event Date: 22 Aug 2018 20:26 UTC
22 Aug 2018 22:26 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Aug 2018 20:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000gfp8 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 352 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

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Parts of Omani beach area to be evacuated next weekSun, 26 Aug 2018 09:21:00 +0200.

Muscat: A part of the Sawadi coastal area in Barka will be evacuated as the Sultanate participates in a simulated tsunami test in the Indian Ocean on September 4. Oman is set to participate in the Indian Ocean Wave 18 on September 4. The re
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Tremors continue to strike South IranSun, 26 Aug 2018 04:58:00 +0200.

Muscat: A 5.5 magnitude earthquake was reported in in Southern Iran at 10:18 pm Oman time on Friday, reported the Earthquake Monitoring Committee of the SQU. The south of Iran was hit by three earthquakes of varying degrees on Thursday, bot
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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),