M 6 in Yemen on 27 Aug 2026 21:07 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 1562205
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.2654 , 50.5425
Event Date: 27 Aug 2026 21:07 UTC
28 Aug 2026 00:07 Local
Exposed Population: 40 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 27 Aug 2026 21:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Yemen)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000tcf3 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. 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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),