M 4.5 Off-shore on 29 Jul 2020 19:08 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 1228130
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -33.0748 , -178.6779
Event Date: 29 Jul 2020 19:08 UTC
29 Jul 2020 07:08 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Jul 2020 19:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b6ce Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 561 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

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The epicentre of the earthquake was registered at a depth of 8.1km in Moc Chau district, with the event being just one of a series of earthquakes that have hit Son La over the past six days. Nguyen Xuan Anh, director of the Institute of Geo
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Today in historySun, 02 Aug 2020 09:53:00 +0200.

2 August 2020 (MIA) 338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean. 216 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae
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Olas gigantes que transforman el EstadoSun, 02 Aug 2020 08:26:00 +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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),