M 5.8 in Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 09 Nov 2018 07:54 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 1161707
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -42.715 , -16.006
Event Date: 09 Nov 2018 07:54 UTC
09 Nov 2018 06:54 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Nov 2018 08:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000hple 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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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 206 | About casualties: 37 | Last hour: 0

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Philippines: Asia and the Pacific: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapsh ... Mon, 12 Nov 2018 10:35:00 +0100.

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El almirante de la Marina, Craig S. Faller, tomará posesión el próximo 26 de noviembre como nuevo comandante del Comando Sur de Estados Unidos (Southcom), encargado de las operaciones militares en América del Sur y el Caribe, informó esa in
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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),