M 5.1 in Southern East Pacific Rise on 28 Nov 2020 13:09 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 1245441
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.6478 , -124.9561
Event Date: 28 Nov 2020 13:09 UTC
28 Nov 2020 05:09 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Nov 2020 13:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ckmd Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 125 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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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),