M 5.8 in Southern East Pacific Rise on 25 Dec 2019 20:20 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 1199607
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -25.2639 , -116.0112
Event Date: 25 Dec 2019 20:20 UTC
25 Dec 2019 12:20 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Dec 2019 22:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70006r1g Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 275 | About casualties: 53 | Last hour: 0

Hong Kong family recalls kindness of Thais in 2004 tsunamiSat, 28 Dec 2019 05:14:00 +0100.

A family from Hong Kong recently recalled their traumatic experience of the deadly tsunami that hit southern Thailand 15 years ago. Educational investor Howard Liang, 64, together with his wife Luanna Liang, 62, and their two daughters – Ch
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HK family recalls kindness of Thais in 2004 tsunami A family from Hong ... Sat, 28 Dec 2019 05:09:00 +0100.

Educational investor Howard Liang, 64, together with his wife Luanna Liang, 62, and their two daughters – Chloe, 30, and Charmian, 27 – recounted that nineteen members of the family were in Phuket when the tsunami struck on December 26, 200
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Typhoon death toll rises to 28, agri damage over P600MFri, 27 Dec 2019 13:50:00 +0100.

THE DEATH toll from typhoon Ursula (international name: Phanfone) has risen to 28 as authorities continue to take stock of the devastation in central areas of the Philippines. On agricultural damage, the Department of Agriculture (DA) has p
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Earthquake hits near Bushehr nuclear plant in IranFri, 27 Dec 2019 09:51:00 +0100.

An earthquake measuring 5.1 magnitude struck near Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant on Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake was moderate, with its epicenter located at a depth of 38.28 km, southeast of Borazjan city in Bush
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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),