M 4.8 in Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 31 May 2021 14:44 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 1271083
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 28.6307 , -43.6382
Event Date: 31 May 2021 14:44 UTC
31 May 2021 11:44 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 May 2021 16:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000egca Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),