M 6.3 in Balleny Islands Region on 08 Oct 2017 20:48 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 1123352
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -61.7431 , 154.5526
Event Date: 08 Oct 2017 20:48 UTC
09 Oct 2017 06:48 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Oct 2017 21:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us2000b2v1 Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 525 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

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Fears of new nuclear test in North Korea after earthquake is detected ... Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:27:00 +0200.

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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 (88), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (2), NOAA (1),