M 4.9 in British Indian Ocean Territory on 01 Jul 2020 22:42 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 1224772
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.2587 , 67.9791
Event Date: 01 Jul 2020 22:42 UTC
02 Jul 2020 03:42 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Jul 2020 23:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (British Indian Ocean Territory)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000aga2 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 6 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),