M 4.5 in Australia on 29 Sep 2020 12:11 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 1237342
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.0339 , 117.1499
Event Date: 29 Sep 2020 12:11 UTC
29 Sep 2020 20:11 Local
Exposed Population:
About 24000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Sep 2020 13:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (Australia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000c2il Scaled population (vector) 4.64  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.63  
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Latest media headlines

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Coronavirus disrupted my kid's first year of school. Will that set the ... Wed, 23 Sep 2020 23:33:00 +0200.

Students in the first year of school to Year 10 have been learning remotely in Victoria. It's estimated first-year students (known as prep in Victoria) in areas that have been under lockdown for some time have missed around 12 weeks of clas
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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),