M 5.6 Off-shore on 20 Mar 2024 05:48 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 1420291
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 118 Km
Lat/Lon: -56.2612 , -27.4164
Event Date: 20 Mar 2024 05:48 UTC
20 Mar 2024 03:48 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 20 Mar 2024 06:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mjx0 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.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 449 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 11

Mag 6.1 earthquake hits off Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara2024-03-24T05:43+0100.

JAKARTA: A magnitude 6.1 quake struck off the coast of Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province, the country's geophysics agency said on Sunday. In a post on X, the agency said there was no tsunami potential. The epicentre was located 104km
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Earthquake of magnitude 6.7 strikes Papua New Guinea, GFZ says2024-03-24T05:23+0100.

(Reuters) An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 struck a remote part of northern Papua New Guinea on Sunday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 65 km (40 miles), GFZ added. It had initially reported
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Magnitude 6.1 earthquake hits off Indonesia's east coast2024-03-24T05:18+0100.

A magnitude 6.1 quake struck off the coast of Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province, the country's geophysics agency said on Sunday. In a post on X, the agency said there was no tsunami potential.
Lupillo Rivera protagoniza acalorado beso con famosa conductora2024-03-24T04:46+0100.

Las emociones se desbordaron en el reality show, con un inesperado beso entre el cantante mexicano y la ex Miss Colombia, provocando un tsunami de reacciones en las redes sociales. Desde su ingreso al programa, la química entre Lupillo y Ar
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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),