M 5.9 in Southwest Indian Ridge on 06 Mar 2020 10:28 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 1209107
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -31.3513 , 58.3249
Event Date: 06 Mar 2020 10:28 UTC
06 Mar 2020 14:28 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Mar 2020 10:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60008ay3 Scaled population (raster) 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 86 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Tibetan county jolted by three earthquakesTue, 10 Mar 2020 09:11:00 +0100.

Three moderate earthquakes jolted a county in Tibet on Tuesday, though no casualties were reported, official media reported. There have been no casualties reported following three earthquakes including a 5.0-magnitude earthquake in a county
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No casualties reported from Tibet earthquakesTue, 10 Mar 2020 09:02:00 +0100.

LHASA, March 10 (Xinhua) -- There have been no casualties reported following three earthquakes including a 5.0-magnitude earthquake in a county in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Tuesday morning. The 5.0-magnitude earthquake, w
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No casualties reported from Tibet earthquakesTue, 10 Mar 2020 07:27:00 +0100.

There have been no casualties reported following three earthquakes including a 5.0-magnitude earthquake in a county in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Tuesday morning. The 5.0-magnitude earthquake, with the epicenter monitored
...(more)
No casualties reported from Tibet earthquakesTue, 10 Mar 2020 06:57:00 +0100.

There have been no casualties reported following three earthquakes including a 5.0-magnitude earthquake in a county in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Tuesday morning. The 5.0-magnitude earthquake, with the epicenter monitored
...(more)

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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),