M 4.6 in Christmas Island on 28 Jul 2020 20:42 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 1228007
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 8.28 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.6291 , 108.0354
Event Date: 28 Jul 2020 20:42 UTC
29 Jul 2020 03:42 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jul 2020 22:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Christmas I.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b5lw Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  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

Articles: 11 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Australia firesTue, 28 Jul 2020 12:01:00 +0200.

Australian officials have warned communities to strengthen bushfire defences as soaring temperatures and strong winds were set to return, threatening to… Australia officials are worried that a deluge of good intentions after the wildfires
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El primer pueblo de Granada que ya ha suspendido las fiestas de 2021 p ... Tue, 28 Jul 2020 11:39:00 +0200.

Quizás sean las primeras fiestas patronales que se suspenden en el próximo año 2021 en la provincia de Granada . Los mayordomos y la Asociación de Fieles del Santo Rosario y Hermandad Patronal de Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados y Santa L
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The Days the Earth Stood Still: COVID-19 Lockdowns Caused Earth Vibrat ... Fri, 24 Jul 2020 18:03:00 +0200.

The new research, led by the Royal Observatory of Belgium and five other institutions around the world including Imperial College London , showed that the dampening of ‘seismic noise’ caused by humans was more pronounced in more densely pop
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50% Reduction in Seismic Background Noise Thanks to LockdownFri, 24 Jul 2020 12:09:00 +0200.

The lack of human activity during lockdown caused human-linked vibrations in the Earth to drop by an average of 50% between March and May 2020. This quiet period, likely caused by the total global effect of social distancing measures, closu
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),