M 4.8 Off-shore on 18 Jun 2013 12:27 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 1000221
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 588.2 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.4708 , -179.8074
Event Date: 18 Jun 2013 12:27 UTC
18 Jun 2013 00:27 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Jun 2013 14:55 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  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Latest media headlines

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11:41 Campaigners condemn whale killing 6/19/2013 1:24:00 PM.

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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 (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),