M 6.3 in Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 24 May 2015 04:53 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 1055706
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.83 , -14.1858
Event Date: 24 May 2015 04:53 UTC
24 May 2015 03:53 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 May 2015 05:11 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Exposed population

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Data, images, links, services and documents

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