M 5.3 in Greenland on 05 Aug 2020 08:48 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 1228953
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 87.3492 , 6.5046
Event Date: 05 Aug 2020 08:48 UTC
05 Aug 2020 08:48 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Aug 2020 09:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Greenland)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b9kr 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: 3 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

China fears: Scientists warn volcano extinct for 500,000 years 'appear ... Sat, 25 Jul 2020 19:35:00 +0200.

Scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China were studying the Weishan volcano located inside Wudalianchi volcanic field of the northeast of the country. This volcano last erupted around 500,000 years ago, but there hav
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Scientists find new evidence of land-splitting tsunami 8,150 years ago ... Thu, 16 Jul 2020 19:05:00 +0200.

Scientists have found new evidence of a massive tsunami that devastated ancient Britain in the year 6200 BC on the east coast of England. The giant tsunami event, known as the Storegga Slide, was caused when an area of seabed the size of Sc
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How a giant tsunami devastated Britain’s Atlantis The IndependentThu, 16 Jul 2020 18:16:00 +0200.

in the south. New underwater research carried out by the universities of Bradford, Warwick, St Andrews and Wales has for the first time discovered that the tsunami devastated parts of East Anglia and adjacent land which is now submerged ben
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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),