M 4.5 in Cayman Islands on 08 Sep 2020 13:00 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 1233573
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 19.0825 , -80.1559
Event Date: 08 Sep 2020 13:00 UTC
08 Sep 2020 08:00 Local
Exposed Population:
About 2000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Sep 2020 13:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Cayman Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bjq6 Scaled population (vector) 2.65  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  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: 2 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Pair of earthquakes hit Cayman areaTue, 08 Sep 2020 17:10:00 +0200.

A pair of earthquakes struck the Cayman Islands area Tuesday morning, according to the Earthquake+ app. The United States Geological Survey confirmed a magnitude 4.9 earthquake about 64 miles east-southeast of East End, Grand Cayman. That q
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Cayman Regiment reservists showcase skillsSat, 15 Aug 2020 23:41:00 +0200.

Reservists with the Cayman Regiment put their training to the test this week as they ran through a mock hurricane exercise, together with aerial support from the RCIPS Air Operations Unit. The 51-strong platoon is nearing the end of its two
...(more)

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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), INFORM (2), USGS (2),