M 4.9 Off-shore on 05 Aug 2019 19:29 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 1185709
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -31.6571 , -177.9747
Event Date: 05 Aug 2019 19:29 UTC
05 Aug 2019 07:29 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Aug 2019 20:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us600050zk Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 626 | About casualties: 69 | Last hour: 0

South Korea: 2.2-magnitude quake detected near North Korea coastFri, 09 Aug 2019 19:06:00 +0200.

Aug. 9 (UPI) -- South Korea's meteorological agency said Friday a 2.2-magnitude earthquake was detected off the coast of The epicenter of the earthquake was located in an area about 30 miles south of Cholsan, North Pyongan Province, at 39.
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Turkey: Quake damaged nearly 1,000 buildings, official saysFri, 09 Aug 2019 18:59:00 +0200.

An official says nearly 1,000 buildings were damaged by Thursday's 6.0-magnitude earthquake in western Turkey. Turkish Environment and Urban Planning Minister Murat Kurum said Friday that 108 structures in the area were "badly" damaged and
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Terremoto de 5.9 sacude Taiwan y deja a una mujer muertaFri, 09 Aug 2019 18:49:00 +0200.

. El terremoto afectó toda la isla, según las autoridades, y produjo varias sacudidas en los rascacielos de la capital, Taipéi, cuyos habitantes se despertaron mientras dormían. Una mujer murió este jueves tras un terremoto de magnitud 5.9
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Typhoon Lekima, earthquake kill twoFri, 09 Aug 2019 18:47:00 +0200.

Typhoon Lekima, which sideswiped northern Taiwan from late Thursday through early yesterday, and a strong earthquake on Thursday morning left two people dead, 11 injured and more than 3,000 homes without electricity overnight, the Central E
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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),