Overall Green Earthquake in Azores Islands, Portugal on 21 Jul 2026 13:13 UTC

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M 5.3 in Azores Islands, Portugal on 21 Jul 2026 13:13 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 1553203
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	6.7 Km
Lat/Lon:	39.9371 , -29.7175
Event Date:	21 Jul 2026 13:13 UTC 21 Jul 2026 11:13 Local
Exposed Population:	30 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at:	21 Jul 2026 13:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Portugal)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000t26b	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	0
	C2 shakemap	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Significant earthquake of magnitude 5.3 just reported 128 km east of V.. 7/21/2026 2:24:00 PM.

Portugal was shaken near Vila do Corvo, Vila do Corvo Municipality, Azores, by an earthquake of magnitude 5.3 only 29 minutes ago, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported. The quake hit at a shallow depth of 15.40 km

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),

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