M 5.2 in Southwest Indian Ridge on 26 Nov 2020 17:03 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 1245222
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -39.4386 , 46.2067
Event Date: 26 Nov 2020 17:03 UTC
26 Nov 2020 20:03 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Nov 2020 14:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ck2p Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),