M 6.7 in Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 06 Sep 2020 06:51 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 1233308
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 7.6929 , -37.2174
Event Date: 06 Sep 2020 06:51 UTC
06 Sep 2020 04:51 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Sep 2020 14:29 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us7000biu8 Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 636 | About casualties: 44 | Last hour: 0

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A pyrotechnic device used during a gender reveal party on Saturday caused a massive wildfire in California which razed more than 10,000 acres of land in California, officials said. According to surveillance footage, a group of people gather
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New Jersey earthquake? 3.1-magnitude quake shakes people awake early W ... Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:17:00 +0200.

ASBURY PARK, N.J. – A 3.1 magnitude earthquake was confirmed to have struck parts of Central Jersey early Wednesday morning, according to a report from the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake was felt around 2 a.m. and lasted 13 seconds about
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3.1 magnitude earthquake near East Freehold, New JerseyWed, 09 Sep 2020 18:41:00 +0200.

Social media, mostly from central New Jersey residents, alternately reported they thought a truck hit their house, or a low flying plane, or even a sonic boom. The epicenter was near the Monmouth County Sheriff's Public Safety Complex on Ko
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3.1-magnitude earthquake shakes central New Jersey - NBC NewsWed, 09 Sep 2020 18:15:00 +0200.

A small earthquake shook central New Jersey just after 2 a.m. Wednesday, rumbling people awake from an epicenter near East Freehold in Monmouth County. In a tweet early Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed the quake had a prelimi
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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 (91), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (2), NOAA (1),