M 6.1 in Southwest Indian Ridge on 24 Sep 2019 21:19 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 1188309
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -33.8163 , 56.2497
Event Date: 24 Sep 2019 21:19 UTC
25 Sep 2019 01:19 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Sep 2019 21:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60005n52 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),