M 5.8 in Mid-Indian Ridge on 19 Sep 2020 21:09 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 1235986
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.5627 , 77.8605
Event Date: 19 Sep 2020 21:09 UTC
20 Sep 2020 02:09 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Sep 2020 23:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bqaf Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 302 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Moderate earthquake in Los Angeles area, California - Minor damage to ... Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:13:00 +0200.

Los Angeles - The shaking lasted about 25 seconds. bellfower - Strong jolt, with shaking lasting about 10 seconds. Vista, CA - Weak shaking; Pomona - 10 secs; Pasadena - Moderate shaking; Burbank - Noticeable, a few seconds, no damage as fa
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Several dead in Turkey after earthquake hits Iran border areaSun, 20 Sep 2020 00:12:00 +0200.

At least nine people have been killed and 37 others injured in Turkey’s Van province following an earthquake early Sunday, the country’s health minister has said. Nine of the injured are in serious condition, Fahrettin Koca said. Earlier, I
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5:14 Celebran en Haití aniversario 15 de contingente Henry ReeveSat, 19 Sep 2020 23:33:00 +0200.

19 de septiembre de 2020, 17:14 Puerto Príncipe, 19 sep (Prensa Latina) Médicos de Cuba en Haití celebraron hoy el aniversario 15 del contingente Henry Reeve, uno de los proyectos más solidarios del líder histórico de la Revolución cubana,
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Magnitude 4.5 earthquake strikes Southern California - CBS NewsSat, 19 Sep 2020 23:28:00 +0200.

A preliminary 4.5 magnitude earthquake struck the Los Angeles area late Friday night, the U.S. Geological Survey reported . The quake was centered less than two miles west-southwest of South El Monte and occurred at 11:38 p.m. the focal po
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),