M 5.9 in Central East Pacific Rise on 30 Jan 2019 15:31 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 1169282
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.6031 , -105.4442
Event Date: 30 Jan 2019 15:31 UTC
30 Jan 2019 08:31 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Jan 2019 23:28 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000is2c 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: 240 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

5.8 magnitude earthquake hits Pak; tremors felt in North IndiaSat, 02 Feb 2019 21:27:00 +0100.

NEW DELHI: A 5.8 magnitude earthquake jolted several cities in the northern parts of Pakistan on Saturday, the meteorological department said. However, there was no immediate report of any casualty or damage. According to the Pakistan Meteo
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Quake jolts India, PakSat, 02 Feb 2019 20:29:00 +0100.

PTI New Delhi/Islamabad, Feb 2: An earthquake hit several parts of North India, including Jammu and Kashmir, and north west Pakistan. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said the epicentre of the quake was Hindu Kush, which is a moun
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Earthquake jolts several Pakistan cities, tremors felt in North IndiaSat, 02 Feb 2019 19:55:00 +0100.

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit Afghanistan Saturday, tremors of which were felt in several parts of North India, including the national capital, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said.The NCS, an institute under the Ministry of Earth
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Mild tremors felt in Delhi as 5.8 magnitude quake hits PakistanSat, 02 Feb 2019 16:45:00 +0100.

The earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale took place at a depth of 208 kilometres in the Hindu Kush Region in Afghanistan. (Photo: Google Maps) A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit Pakistan Saturday, tremors of which were felt in several
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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),