M 4.9 in Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 01 Nov 2020 21:19 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 1242107
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.176 , -45.1505
Event Date: 01 Nov 2020 21:19 UTC
01 Nov 2020 18:19 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Nov 2020 21:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000c91s Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 71 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

The World in BriefWed, 04 Nov 2020 11:46:00 +0100.

Turkish girl, 3, alive 4 days after quake. IZMIR, TURKEY -- Rescuers in the Turkish city of Izmir pulled a toddler out alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building Tuesday, four days after a strong earthquake hit Turkey and Greec
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MetMalaysia proactively monitors earthquake, tsunami threatsWed, 04 Nov 2020 06:34:00 +0100.

KUALA LUMPUR: Taking the tsunami which affected several northern peninsular states on Dec 26, 2004 as a lesson learnt, the Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) will continue to proactively act and monitor earthquake activities
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Mediterranean on RED ALERT with Erdogan threatening 'war' with Greece ... Tue, 03 Nov 2020 15:02:00 +0100.

"Greece calls on Turkey to immediately withdraw the illegal NAVTEX and return to exploratory contacts, for the only pending issue between the two countries, the delimitation of maritime zones." In an op-ed for the Greek City Times, Michail
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Hurricane Eta 'extremely dangerous' as it nears Central AmericaTue, 03 Nov 2020 14:32:00 +0100.

Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Hurricane Eta is inching closer to Central America as a powerful Category 4 storm and is expected to make landfall in Nicaragua on Tuesday. Eta is the 28th named storm and 12th hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),