M 7.7 Earthquake and Tsunami (1.6 m) in Cuba on 28 Jan 2020 19:10 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1203961
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.7M
Glide number: EQ-2020-000131-CUB
Depth: 14.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 19.421 , -78.7627
Event Date: 28 Jan 2020 19:10 UTC
28 Jan 2020 14:10 Local
Exposed Population: Less than 100 people in MMI VII
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Jan 2020 20:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Cuba)
Maximum Wave Height observed: 0.11 m

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 1.2 1.2
us60007idc Scaled population (raster) 0.08 Max wave alert 1.58m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 1.58m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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 (90), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (4),