M 5.3 in Puerto Rico on 03 Jul 2020 20:49 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 1224994
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 3 Km
Lat/Lon: 17.8995 , -67.0048
Event Date: 03 Jul 2020 20:49 UTC
03 Jul 2020 16:49 Local
Exposed Population: About 2000 people in MMI
1900000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Jul 2020 17:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
PRICO RS 0 0
pr2020185017 Scaled population (vector) 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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 (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),