M 5.5 Off-shore on 09 Aug 2020 12:42 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 1229481
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.9316 , -27.7374
Event Date: 09 Aug 2020 12:42 UTC
09 Aug 2020 10:42 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Aug 2020 13:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000bbh7 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 861 | About casualties: 14 | Last hour: 0

Sussex earthquake: 3-magnitude tremor hits English channel An 3.0-magn ... Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:25:00 +0200.

© Provided by The Independent. An 3.0-magnitude earthquake has struck the English Channel just off the coast. The tremor happened at around 9am on Thursday morning, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre ( The earthqua
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Un tremblement de terre frappe la Manche avec des secousses de magnitu ... Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:06:00 +0200.

Un tremblement de terre frappe la Manche avec des secousses de magnitude 3 secouant la côte du Sussex. Par Danyal Hussain pour Mailonline. Publiée: 05h31 HAE, le 13 août 2020 Actualisé: 05h33 HAE, le 13 août 2020. Un tremblement de terre d
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Professor Bar-On wins Yigal Alon prize for pioneering excellenceThu, 13 Aug 2020 11:58:00 +0200.

Professor Elhanan Bar-On, the director of the Center for Disaster Medicine & Humanitarian Response at Sheba Medical Center, has won the Yigal Alon Prize for pioneering excellence. As a Lt. Colonel in the IDF Medical Corps Reserves, Prof. Ba
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UK hit by 3.0 magnitude earthquake near coastline – tremors recordedThu, 13 Aug 2020 11:57:00 +0200.

A 3.0 magnitude earthquake has struck the English channel. It was recorded 50km east of Eastbourne in Sussex this morning at around 9.05am. It occurred at a depth of 7km underground and was registered in Camber Sands (34km away) and Lewes (
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),