M 4.7 Off-shore on 28 Jul 2020 10:31 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 1227930
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 26.0696 , 142.5526
Event Date: 28 Jul 2020 10:31 UTC
28 Jul 2020 20:31 Local
Exposed Population:
About 500 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jul 2020 11:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b59d Scaled population (vector) 2.36  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 511 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

37 hours on flight from Equatorial Guinea bringing Vietnamese citizens ... Sat, 01 Aug 2020 08:08:00 +0200.

After a long journey to bring more than 200 Vietnamese citizens home safely, the crew were all relieved and happy to have fulfilled an important mission. Flight attendant Pham Xuan Truong, who was also on flights repatriating Vietnamese cit
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Kaikoura earthquake - Where are they nowSat, 01 Aug 2020 05:54:00 +0200.

Two years on from the Kaikoura earthquake, Checkpoint reporter Logan Church returns to the town to speak to business owners whose lives were changed when the 7.8 quake ripped the earth apart.
Providing assistance to school meal programmes Japan donates 388 tonne ... Sat, 01 Aug 2020 05:23:00 +0200.

Courtesy The Daily News Director of Health and Nutrition at the Ministry of Education, Renuka Peiris; Charge d’Affaires ad interim of Japan to Sri Lanka, Kitamur Toshihiro; WFP Deputy Country Director of Sri Lanka, Andrea Berardo; Secretary
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Japan donates 388 tonnes of canned fish to Sri Lanka, WFPFri, 31 Jul 2020 23:45:00 +0200.

Director of Health and Nutrition at the Ministry of Education, Renuka Peiris; Charge d’Affaires ad interim of Japan to Sri Lanka, Kitamur Toshihiro; WFP Deputy Country Director of Sri Lanka, Andrea Berardo; Secretary of the Ministry of Educ
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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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),