M 6.5 in Western Indian-Antarctic Ridge on 18 Apr 2019 14:46 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 1176991
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -51.0555 , 139.4904
Event Date: 18 Apr 2019 14:46 UTC
18 Apr 2019 23:46 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Apr 2019 15:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us700038m1 Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 110 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Folding Faults And Seismic Risk In The Kunlun Range, Northwest TibetMon, 22 Apr 2019 02:53:00 +0200.

In a new article for Geosphere, authors Chuanyong Wu and colleagues report the surface deformation caused by the 2015 6.5 magnitude Pishan earthquake based on their field investigations. They utilized geologic data, seismic reflection profi
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Haití, ¿por qué no es importante?Sun, 21 Apr 2019 10:37:00 +0200.

La pregunta que sirve de título para este análisis puede parecer tendenciosa, por no decir ociosa. Sin embargo, es la misma interrogante que me hago cuando pienso en todos los problemas que afectan a la nación más pobre del hemisferio occid
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Tall OrderFri, 19 Apr 2019 05:55:00 +0200.

S uresh Shakya (above) was sitting down for lunch with his family in his house in Itum Bahal four years ago when there was a terrifying, subterranean growl, and his building started shaking. Shakya, 46, knew it was an earthquake, and while
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Strong 6.5 earthquake off Australian coast: USGSFri, 19 Apr 2019 04:25:00 +0200.

HONG KONG (AFP) - A strong 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit off the southern coast of Australia on Thursday (April 18), the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning. The shallow quake occur
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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 (91), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (2), NOAA (1),