M 5.3 Off-shore on 18 Jan 2021 17:40 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 1252105
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -33.5506 , -179.2083
Event Date: 18 Jan 2021 17:40 UTC
18 Jan 2021 05:40 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Jan 2021 21:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d15q 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),