M 5.8 in United States on 16 Aug 2020 20:05 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 1230494
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 15 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.1433 , -171.0499
Event Date: 16 Aug 2020 20:05 UTC
16 Aug 2020 09:05 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Aug 2020 20:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000bfpw 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: 274 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

Communities in Odisha State, India, receive Tsunami Ready recognition ... Thu, 20 Aug 2020 13:27:00 +0200.

Venkatraipur and Noliasahi in the Odisha State (India) are the first communities in the Indian Ocean region to obtain Tsunami Ready international recognition, the golden standard of tsunami preparedness awarded by UNESCO’s Intergovernmental
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Indonesia: ¡Dos fuertes sismos en menos de 6 minutos!Thu, 20 Aug 2020 04:57:00 +0200.

Redacción. Dos fuertes sismos submarinos de magnitud 6.8 y 6.9 respectivamente, sacudieron Indonesia cerca de la isla de Sumatra, en las últimas horas. El Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS por sus siglas en inglés) informó que el s
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Earthquake Shakes Inland Empire, USGS ReportsWed, 19 Aug 2020 20:27:00 +0200.

Did you feel the quake? Let us know in the comments below! (Kristin Borden/Patch) RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA—A small earthquake shook the Inland Empire on Wednesday at 10:52 a.m., the United States Geological Survey reports. It measured in as a
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Humanitarian and Surfer Matt Vecere is Remembered with a Restored Well ... Wed, 19 Aug 2020 20:27:00 +0200.

IRVINE, CA, UNITED STATES, August 19, 2020 / EINPresswire.com / -- Matt Vecere, who grew up surfing in Sea Isle, New Jersey and later lived, worked and surfed in Southern California, dedicated his life to humanitarian causes before he was k
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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 (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),