M 5.8 in Norway on 28 Aug 2020 02:24 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 1232063
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -54.8242 , 1.6671
Event Date: 28 Aug 2020 02:24 UTC
28 Aug 2020 02:24 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Aug 2020 21:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Norway)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000be5j Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 2 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Can’t schools resume where they’re ready – as usual?Sun, 16 Aug 2020 18:37:00 +0200.

Can't public schools reopen wherever they're ready? It's usual anyway. Classes don't all start on the day the Dept. of Education sets. In these 7,641 islands there's always disruption somewhere. Typhoon, fire, flood, landslide, earthquake,
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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),