M 5 in Southern East Pacific Rise on 22 Jan 2021 02:05 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 1252661
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -33.8506 , -109.8813
Event Date: 22 Jan 2021 02:05 UTC
21 Jan 2021 19:05 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Jan 2021 02:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d29s 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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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 200 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Simulating 800,000 years of California earthquake history to pinpoint ... Mon, 25 Jan 2021 23:44:00 +0100.

Massive earthquakes are, fortunately, rare events. But that scarcity of information blinds us in some ways to their risks, especially when it comes to
Simular 800.000 años de historia de terremotos en California para iden ... Mon, 25 Jan 2021 23:25:00 +0100.

Vista en 3D de una ruptura de múltiples fallas especialmente compleja del catálogo de terremotos sintéticos desarrollado por el Centro de Terremotos del Sur de ... Read more The post Simular 800.000 años de historia de terremotos en Califor
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The closest settlement to the epicenter of the 2001 earthquake: Chouba ... Mon, 25 Jan 2021 23:19:00 +0100.

Manji Meria, 50, and his family are digging the site where their home was buried 20 years ago in the earthquake in the Chopari village of Bachao Taluka, the closest human settlement to the epicenter, which was identified nine kilometers fro
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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),