M 5.5 in Australia on 01 Oct 2019 19:57 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 1189099
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.25 , 158.4184
Event Date: 01 Oct 2019 19:57 UTC
02 Oct 2019 06:57 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Oct 2019 21:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (Australia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
usd000b35a Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.63  
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: 50 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

An earthquake has been detected off the central Queensland coastFri, 04 Oct 2019 09:34:00 +0200.

UPDATE 1.45PM : THE earthquake that hit off the Central Queensland coast on Friday morning was manually detected 200km east of Gladstone by a a Seismologist from Geoscience Australia. Marco Maldoni said the earthquake was too small for the
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News Feature : Can the Pacific Islands be insured? [03/10/2019 - Austr ... Fri, 04 Oct 2019 05:33:00 +0200.

By Vijaya Ramachandran and Junaid Sadiq Masood The Pacific Islands are grappling with the effects of disasters and climate change, which have the potential to make entire countries inhospitable, posing significant development challenges. Sm
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Fourfold rise in Australians visiting West Nusa TenggaraThu, 03 Oct 2019 16:46:00 +0200.

A graphic data of tourist arrivals in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB). (ANTARA/ Nur Imansyah/ FA) The distance between Darwin and Lombok is shorter than Darwin and Melbourne or Darwin and other cities in Australia. People of Darwin would prefer t
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Descubren cuál sería el origen de una peligrosa enfermedad en el noroe ... Thu, 03 Oct 2019 16:33:00 +0200.

Durante décadas, los científicos no podían explicar cómo un hongo mortal, típico de climas tropicales, había llegado a la costa noroeste del Pacífico. El 27 de marzo de 1964, el sur de Alaska fue sacudido por un terremoto de magnitud 9,2, e
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),