M 6.9 in Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 18 Sep 2020 21:43 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 1235880
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.9604 , -26.8332
Event Date: 18 Sep 2020 21:43 UTC
18 Sep 2020 19:43 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Sep 2020 23:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us7000bq10 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      
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Latest media headlines

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Turkey: Magnitude 5.1 earthquake hits central provinceSun, 20 Sep 2020 23:25:00 +0200.

ANKARA. A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck Turkey’s central Nigde province, the country’s disaster agency reported on Sunday. The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority said the earthquake occurred at 10.08 p.m. local time (GMT1908) in
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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),