M 4.6 in Brazil on 30 Aug 2020 10:44 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 1232356
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -13.2878 , -39.5254
Event Date: 30 Aug 2020 10:44 UTC
30 Aug 2020 07:44 Local
Exposed Population:
1600000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Aug 2020 12:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.1 (Brazil)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bf08 Scaled population (vector) 6.25  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.88  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 11 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Farmers had no idea they had a fault line in their backyard - until qu ... Thu, 03 Sep 2020 09:24:00 +0200.

Brazilian-born Guadagnin, then working as a farmhand, had never experienced an earthquake before. ''I thought it was the end of the world,'' he said this week. READ MORE: His co-worker and friend, fellow Brazilian Filipe Casagrande, was rid
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The Earthquake That Brought EnlightenmentTue, 01 Sep 2020 09:13:00 +0200.

The Great Lisbon Earthquake is the epitome of Portugal’s paradoxical relationship with the sea. For centuries leading up to the disaster, Portugal had grown fat on the bounty of a vast maritime empire that sprawled from Brazil to India—yet
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UN Expert Urges States To Ban Evictions Amid PandemicWed, 19 Aug 2020 05:24:00 +0200.

(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 04, 2018 The “Palais des Nations”, which houses the United Nations Offices, is seen at the end of the flag-lined front lawn in Geneva. – The United Nations said on June 18, 2020, it was resuming
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UN expert urges states to ban evictions amid pandemicTue, 18 Aug 2020 19:35:00 +0200.

Lights are seen from apartments as residents stay in their homes at a condominuim during the corornavirus lockdown in Quezon City, Philippines on Sunday, March 29, 2020. Basilio H. Sepe, ABS-CBN News/File. GENEVA - A UN rights expert calle
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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),