M 5.5 Off-shore on 14 Feb 2020 05:59 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 1206563
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -56.6312 , -142.2837
Event Date: 14 Feb 2020 05:59 UTC
13 Feb 2020 20:59 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Feb 2020 06:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70007q3m Scaled population (raster) 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: 431 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Oregon wrestles with building facilities in tsunami zonesTue, 18 Feb 2020 05:47:00 +0100.

SALEM — E xperts say the big one is coming to the Pacific Northwest: a massive earthquake that will cause buildings and bridges to collapse and unleash a tsunami that will devastate the coast. But, doubling down on its decision last year to
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Joanne Liu est l’une des 10 femmes de science canadiennes pour sa cont ... Tue, 18 Feb 2020 05:27:00 +0100.

Le 11 février avait lieu la Journée internationale des femmes et des filles de science. À cette occasion, le quotidien ontarien Peterborough Examiner a dressé une liste de 10 femmes canadiennes qui ont largement contribué à leurs différente
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Magnitude 4 earthquake recorded in Issyk-KulTue, 18 Feb 2020 04:38:00 +0100.

AKIPRESS.COM - Magnitude 4 earthquake was recorded in Issyk-Kul region on Feb 18 at 12 am, according to the Institute of Seismology... All rights reserved. © AKIpress News Agency - 2001-2019. Republication of any material is prohibited wit
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31.854 Visitas · "Tsunami ladies": El documental chileno-japonés que c ... Tue, 18 Feb 2020 04:29:00 +0100.

“Cuando me casé, me vine a vivir al mar. Me dijeron que cuando hay un terremoto, viene un tsunami. Y que muchos tsunamis vinieron desde Chile. Por eso para mí, asocio a Chile con tsunamis”, dice una de las mujeres japonesas que protagoniza
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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),