M 5.4 in Southeast Of Easter Island on 15 May 2021 01:53 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 1268813
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -41.4401 , -91.5974
Event Date: 15 May 2021 01:53 UTC
14 May 2021 19:53 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 May 2021 02:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)
GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000e3a8 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 111 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Mount St. Helens erupted 41 years ago today, killing 57Tue, 18 May 2021 22:11:00 +0200.

The earthquake and lateral blast that took out the north side of the mountain also sheared the top 1,300 feet of the volcano. An 80,000-foot plume of ash filled the sky and darkened it even hundreds of miles from the volcano. The eruption d
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Mount St. Helens erupted 41 years ago today, killing 57Tue, 18 May 2021 22:10:00 +0200.

The earthquake and lateral blast that took out the north side of the mountain also sheared the top 1,300 feet of the volcano. An 80,000-foot plume of ash filled the sky and darkened it even hundreds of miles from the volcano. The eruption d
...(more)
Mount St. Helens erupted 41 years ago today, killing 57Tue, 18 May 2021 22:09:00 +0200.

The earthquake and lateral blast that took out the north side of the mountain also sheared the top 1,300 feet of the volcano. An 80,000-foot plume of ash filled the sky and darkened it even hundreds of miles from the volcano. The eruption d
...(more)
Quake strikes in the middle of Lake Tahoe, near Dollar PointMon, 17 May 2021 22:24:00 +0200.

A 3.6 magnitude earthquake gave the Lake Tahoe area a shake on Monday. USGS. A magnitude 3.6 earthquake with an epicenter in the middle of Lake Tahoe struck Monday and rattled the California-Nevada border Monday afternoon, according to the
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),