M 4.6 Off-shore on 31 Dec 2020 15:04 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 1249858
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 538.64 Km
Lat/Lon: -24.0454 , -179.7508
Event Date: 31 Dec 2020 15:04 UTC
31 Dec 2020 03:04 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Dec 2020 16:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000d4jt Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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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),