M 5 in South Shetland Islands on 31 Oct 2020 07:41 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 1241814
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -62.3845 , -58.3104
Event Date: 31 Oct 2020 07:41 UTC
31 Oct 2020 04:41 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Oct 2020 08:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000c8kb Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 186 | About casualties: 78 | Last hour: 0

Aegean quake toll rises, Turkish rescuers make final searchWed, 04 Nov 2020 07:37:00 +0100.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) The death toll in last week's Aegean Sea earthquake has risen to 116 on Wednesday as rescuers in the Turkish city of Izmir focused on the final two collapsed buildings. All but two of the victims were killed in Izmir, Tu
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Aegean quake toll rises, Turkish rescuers make final searchWed, 04 Nov 2020 07:33:00 +0100.

ANKARA, Turkey -- The death toll in last week's Aegean Sea earthquake has risen to 116 on Wednesday as rescuers in the Turkish city of Izmir focused on the final two collapsed buildings. All but two of the victims were killed in Izmir, Turk
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Aegean quake toll rises, Turkish rescuers make final searchWed, 04 Nov 2020 07:31:00 +0100.

ANKARA, Turkey — The death toll in last week's Aegean Sea earthquake has risen to 116 on Wednesday as rescuers in the Turkish city of Izmir focused on the final two collapsed buildings. All but two of the victims were killed in Izmir, Turke
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Aegean quake toll rises, Turkish rescuers make final searchWed, 04 Nov 2020 07:28:00 +0100.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The death toll in last week’s Aegean Sea earthquake has risen to 116 on Wednesday as rescuers in the Turkish city of Izmir focused on the final two collapsed buildings. All but two of the victims were killed in Izmir,
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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),