M 5.4 in Cocos (Keeling) Islands on 19 Jul 2020 02:15 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 1226913
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 8.68 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.9052 , 93.815
Event Date: 19 Jul 2020 02:15 UTC
19 Jul 2020 08:15 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jul 2020 02:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Cocos Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ar27 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 176 | About casualties: 65 | Last hour: 0

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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),