M 5.4 in Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 10 Jun 2020 21:14 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 1221751
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.3134 , -13.1602
Event Date: 10 Jun 2020 21:14 UTC
10 Jun 2020 20:14 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Jun 2020 21:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000a9k1 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),