M 6.1 in British Indian Ocean Territory on 31 Aug 2020 17:24 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 1232521
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.9946 , 70.2388
Event Date: 31 Aug 2020 17:24 UTC
31 Aug 2020 22:24 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Sep 2020 20:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (British Indian Ocean Territory)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bfbx Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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: 34 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Disaster-prone Japan doubles as real-world test lab for US startupsTue, 01 Sep 2020 20:45:00 +0200.

TOKYO -- Ahmad Wani, the CEO of One Concern, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to gauge what kind of damage a disaster might leave behind, founded his company in California, no stranger to wildfires, earthquakes and other natural
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Body found in search for missing British diplomat who vanished while o ... Tue, 01 Sep 2020 01:40:00 +0200.

A body has been found in the search for a missing British diplomat who vanished while out jogging over three months ago. Richard Morris, the UK’s former ambassador to Nepal, disappeared after he set out from his home in Bentley, Hampshire,
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The climate change exchange: ‘Back-up’ planMon, 31 Aug 2020 04:32:00 +0200.

From physics, we know that if an object exerts a force opposite and equal to that which is being externally exerted upon it, then that object is said to be in a state of equilibrium and consequently that object remains at rest. Furthermore,
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UK gave firm £50m aid to carry on building 'unsafe' classrooms in Pak ... Sat, 29 Aug 2020 03:57:00 +0200.

LONDON: Britain built classrooms for 120,000 children in Pakistan after being warned the buildings could collapse on them, an investigation by The Times shows. Officials running British aid’s biggest education infrastructure programme paid
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),