M 4.9 in Antigua and Barbuda on 28 Dec 2020 08:25 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 1249336
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.7968 , -60.5807
Event Date: 28 Dec 2020 08:25 UTC
28 Dec 2020 04:25 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Dec 2020 08:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Antigua & Barbuda)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000d3lw Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 5 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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“El agua contaminada de Fukushima es segura (?)” … Japón, controversia ... Wed, 16 Dec 2020 20:58:00 +0100.

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“Esta grieta no estaba” … El terremoto del viernes pasado causó dañosTue, 08 Dec 2020 09:10:00 +0100.

Jean-Pierre está seguro, "esta grieta, no estaba allí antes". No antes del terremoto del viernes. - T. Gagnepain / 20 minutos El viernes por la mañana a

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),