M 5.4 in Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 19 Dec 2018 03:38 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 1165681
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.5431 , -41.8413
Event Date: 19 Dec 2018 03:38 UTC
19 Dec 2018 00:38 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Dec 2018 04:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000iuyv Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 129 | About casualties: 15 | Last hour: 0

40 killed, 600 injured in Indonesian tsunami 2 hours agoSun, 23 Dec 2018 02:59:00 +0100.

Indonesia’s disaster management agency says the death toll from a tsunami apparently caused by undersea landslides from a volcanic eruption has risen to 43 with some 600 injured. Scientists say the tsunami could have been caused by the erup
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NOVAtime Receives Certificate of Appreciation from Tzu Chi Foundation ... Fri, 21 Dec 2018 09:24:00 +0100.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. Dec. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --Â NOVAtime Technology, Inc. (), a leading Workforce Management / Time and Attendance solutions provider, has been presented with a Certificate of Appreciation from Tzu Chi Foundati
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1000km fault line could destroy Aussie cityWed, 19 Dec 2018 20:45:00 +0100.

WESTERN Australia - home of the quokka, beach camels and most of the country's outback. And it's also home to one of the biggest fault lines in the world. Starting in Albany and stretching 1000km to the north is the Darling Fault, one of th
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Indonesia's Soputan volcano erupts, ejecting thick ashTue, 18 Dec 2018 16:09:00 +0100.

Mount Soputan, located on the northern part of Sulawesi island, erupted twice Sunday morning, according to the national disaster agency's spokesman, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. He said in anticipation of hot ash and lava sliding down the slope of
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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),