M 6 in Iceland on 21 Jun 2020 19:07 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 1223249
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 66.3892 , -18.6873
Event Date: 21 Jun 2020 19:07 UTC
21 Jun 2020 19:07 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VI
About 31000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jun 2020 21:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.9 (Iceland)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ag18 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.62  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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: 5 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Earthquake news: Iceland threatened by Volcano eruption after thousand ... Wed, 24 Jun 2020 05:13:00 +0200.

Grimsvotn volcano has witnessed increased seismic activity in the past month and Iceland’s most active volcano could erupt soon, experts say. Iceland’s meteorological service IMO announced on Monday that 3,000 tremors had taken place on the
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Northern Iceland Earthquake Swarm Continues; 1500 Earthquakes Yesterda ... Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:44:00 +0200.

Over 1,500 earthquakes were detected in northern Iceland yesterday, as the region continues to experience a period of increased seismic activity or an ‘earthquake swarm’. The largest tremor yesterday measured 4.0 in magnitude and occurred a
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La Suède, leçon sanitaire, économique et démocratique pour la France e ... Mon, 15 Jun 2020 05:59:00 +0200.

La Suède non confinée a des résultats globaux bien meilleurs Le 5 mai 2020, je signalais dans une tribune, sur économie-matin, que la Suède[1], les Pays-Bas et l’Islande qui n’ont pas confiné leurs peuples, affichaient déjà des résultats sa
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MIL-OSI Asia-Pac: World News in Brief: June 9Tue, 09 Jun 2020 12:30:00 +0200.

* The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday reported 1,938,823 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 17,919 cases from its previous count, and said that the number of deaths had risen by 474 to 110,375. * Braz
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),