M 5.4 in Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 17 Aug 2020 11:45 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 1230561
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.549 , -12.9556
Event Date: 17 Aug 2020 11:45 UTC
17 Aug 2020 10:45 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Aug 2020 21:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000bfxb 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: 254 | About casualties: 17 | Last hour: 0

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Navy assets ready for Masbate quake response deploymentThu, 20 Aug 2020 05:40:00 +0200.

MANILA The disaster risk reduction teams (DRRTs) and vessels of the Philippine Navy are ready for deployment to assist in response operations in quake-hit Masbate province. Navy public affairs office chief Lt. Commander Maria Christina Roxa
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),