M 6.3 in Drake Passage on 16 Oct 2025 01:42 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 1505366
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -59.9066 , -61.6217
Event Date: 16 Oct 2025 01:42 UTC
15 Oct 2025 21:42 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 16 Oct 2025 01:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us6000rhf2 Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
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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 (92), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (2), NOAA (1),