M 6.6 Off-shore on 18 Apr 2020 08:25 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 1214571
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Depth: 458.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.1508 , 140.1479
Event Date: 18 Apr 2020 08:25 UTC
18 Apr 2020 17:25 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Apr 2020 08:41 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us70008z89 Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 earthquake 1 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 152 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

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Les galeries d'art craignent une escalade de faillites et les foires de subir violemment les conséquences de la crise du coronavirus, pendant que la profession tente de s'organiser pour y faire face, par exemple avec le développement des ve
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Las promotoras, preparadas para el tsunami de la covidSun, 19 Apr 2020 13:27:00 +0200.

El sector inmobiliario afronta la crisis sin el endeudamiento de la época de la burbuja y con una mayor profesionalización tras la entrada de grandes fondos de inversión 18.04.2020 | 17:43. Las promotoras, preparadas para el tsunami de la
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Suspect arrested after dagga lab is uncovered in RandfonteinSun, 19 Apr 2020 10:38:00 +0200.

Cape Town – Eskom is working with the province and developers to finalise electrification of a temporary relocation area (TRA) for Tsunami informal settlement residents. Violence broke out between Tsunami and Delft residents yesterday over
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (84), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), (3), INFORM (2), USGS (2), NOAA (1),