M 5.8 Off-shore on 06 Jun 2021 23:16 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 1272025
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -27.6857 , -176.2718
Event Date: 06 Jun 2021 23:16 UTC
06 Jun 2021 11:16 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Jun 2021 20:29 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000eakj Scaled population (vector) 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: 433 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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Debate between the deputy and the analyst: Ahmetaj took the earthquake ... Thu, 10 Jun 2021 22:09:00 +0200.

Invited to PolitikOn by Alfred Lela on RTV Ora, a debate has erupted between MP Kujtim Gjuzi and Kastriot Myftaraj regarding the dismissal of President Meta. Myftaraj: Even Kujtim does not go to the US, across the Atlantic. She is afraid to
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World's Largest Outdoor Earthquake Simulator Undergoes Major UpgradeThu, 10 Jun 2021 21:52:00 +0200.

A major upgrade to the world’s largest outdoor earthquake simulator reached a milestone mid-April when the facility’s floor—all 300,000 lbs of it—was put back into place. When completed this fall, the simulator will have the ability to repr
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1er septembre 1859. A Cuba, dans les Bahamas ou à Hawaï, des aurores boréales emplissent le ciel nocturne. Elles sont si intenses que les témoins de ces phénomènes jamais vus à de telles latitudes peuvent lire un journal sous leur étrange l
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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),