M 4.6 Off-shore on 29 Aug 2020 09:49 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 1232218
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 117.22 Km
Lat/Lon: 21.6741 , 144.0582
Event Date: 29 Aug 2020 09:49 UTC
29 Aug 2020 19:49 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Aug 2020 10:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bert Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 612 | About casualties: 39 | Last hour: 0

Séisme mineur enregistré dans le nord-ouest de l'ArménieWed, 02 Sep 2020 08:55:00 +0200.

Un tremblement de terre de magnitude 2,9 a été enregistré à 8 km au sud du village d’Ashotsk dans le nord-ouest de l’Arménie à 22 h 07 le 30 août, a indiqué le service de protection sismique. Le séisme a été ressenti dans les villages d’Ama
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Tehran at Risk of Explosion That Could Be Deadlier than Beirut Port Bl ... Wed, 02 Sep 2020 08:30:00 +0200.

Millions of people might lose their lives in Iran and the country is at risk of suffering a tragedy that might be even worse than the Beirut explosions due to the oil tankers that are situated in an earthquake zone, an expert warned. An oil
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Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 6071: Numerical and Probabilistic Stu ... Wed, 02 Sep 2020 08:29:00 +0200.

A tsunami is a significant coastal hazard that causes destructive damage to coastal cities in the world. Besides, tsunamis, generated on the west coast of Japan, damaged coastal cities on the east coast of Korea in 1983 and 1993. In recent
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Couple who refused to be red-zoned have more grey hair, but no regretsWed, 02 Sep 2020 08:20:00 +0200.

The September 2010 earthquake led to one-fifth of Kaiapoi’s homes being condemned by the Government, but one couple refused to take the news lying down. On the morning of the quake, Brent Cairns was already at the Kaiapoi fire station, sort
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),