M 5.6 in Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 07 Oct 2018 00:10 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 1158444
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.5869 , -37.6617
Event Date: 07 Oct 2018 00:10 UTC
06 Oct 2018 21:10 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Oct 2018 00:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000h8ar Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 529 | About casualties: 96 | Last hour: 0

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Michael golpea la costa de EEUU con vientos de 250 km/hWed, 10 Oct 2018 23:58:00 +0200.

Miami - El huracán Michael, uno de los más poderosos que haya tocado el territorio continental estadounidense, descargó hoy toda su fuerza en la costa del extremo noroccidental de Florida, donde ya se registran inundaciones, apagones, caída
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'Michael' golpea la costa de EU con vientos de 250 km/hWed, 10 Oct 2018 23:52:00 +0200.

El huracán "Michael", uno de los más poderosos que haya tocado el territorio continental estadounidense, descargó hoy toda su fuerza en la costa del extremo noroccidental de Florida, donde ya se registran inundaciones, apagones, caídas de c
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Michael azotó Florida con vientos descomunales de 250kphWed, 10 Oct 2018 23:36:00 +0200.

El huracán Michael, uno de los más poderosos que haya tocado el territorio continental estadounidense, descargó este miércoles toda su fuerza en la costa del extremo noroccidental de Florida, donde ya se registran inundaciones, apagones, ca
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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),