M 5.5 in South Indian Ocean on 10 Mar 2019 07:53 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 1172983
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.2599 , 90.2899
Event Date: 10 Mar 2019 07:53 UTC
10 Mar 2019 13:53 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Mar 2019 08:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000jd50 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: 206 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Updated Civil Defence accidentally tweets quake, tsunami warning 56 mi ... Thu, 14 Mar 2019 05:31:00 +0100.

Civil Defence has apologised for alarming Kiwis by accidentally tweeting an old earthquake notification. On Thursday afternoon, it posted to Twitter and Facebook that there had been a 6.6-magnitude earthquake south of the Kermadec Islands.
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Civil Defence NZ retracts potential tsunami warning issued by mistake ... Thu, 14 Mar 2019 05:13:00 +0100.

Civil Defence NZ issued a potential tsunami warning by mistake on Twitter this afternoon. The tweet, which was quickly deleted, said there had been a 6.6 magnitude earthquake just south of the Kermadec Islands. It also stated that Civil D
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Moderate quake strikes coast of Big Island; no tsunami generatedWed, 13 Mar 2019 22:07:00 +0100.

A moderate earthquake struck the coast of the Volcano area of Hawaii island early this morning but did not generate a tsunami. The magnitude 5.5 quake struck at 12:55 a.m. on Kilauea Volcano’s south flank near the Holei Pali area of Hawaii
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Moderate earthquake shakes Hawaii’s Kilauea volcanoWed, 13 Mar 2019 19:11:00 +0100.

VOLCANO, Hawaii The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-5.5 earthquake has hit the southern flank of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano. The agnecy reports light to moderate shaking was felt across the Big Island and Maui early Wednesday morning.
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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),