M 5.7 in British Virgin Is. on 09 Dec 2023 14:27 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 1405002
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 7 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.8785 , -64.3833
Event Date: 09 Dec 2023 14:27 UTC
09 Dec 2023 10:27 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people affected in MMI&>=V
Inserted at: 09 Dec 2023 15:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (British Virgin Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
PRICO RS 0 0
pr2023343002 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. 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 (41), (3), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),