M 6.5 in West Of Macquarie Island on 12 Dec 2021 08:58 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 1301140
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -60.6915 , 154.1065
Event Date: 12 Dec 2021 08:58 UTC
12 Dec 2021 18:58 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 12 Dec 2021 09:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us6000gbls Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  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 (90), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (2),