M 5.9 in North Of Ascension Island on 10 Mar 2018 21:45 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 1137214
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -1.3783 , -15.2461
Event Date: 10 Mar 2018 21:45 UTC
10 Mar 2018 20:45 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Mar 2018 22:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000d2w0 Scaled population (vector) -8  
  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: 722 | About casualties: 21 | Last hour: 0

Grenada: Alert Raised Over Volcano ActivityWed, 14 Mar 2018 08:54:00 +0100.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada– Seismic officials have increased the alert level for underwater volcano, Kick ‘em Jenny, to orange after recording increased activity. And even after activity declined on Tuesday, the alert remained. The alert for the
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World NewsWed, 14 Mar 2018 05:19:00 +0100.

Another conservative former South Korean president is being questioned by prosecutors over a range of corruption allegations. Mexico City is taking ownership of a lot where a seven-story office building collapsed in September's deadly eart
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Turkish Army Reaches Outskirts Of Afrin, Pushes To Isolate CityWed, 14 Mar 2018 04:34:00 +0100.

On the March 11, the Turkish Army and its proxies from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) reached the outskirts of the city of Afrin from the eastern direction after they had captured the village of Qibare, according to sources linked to the FSA. T
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Alert Raised as Activity Increases at Underwater Volcano off GrenadaWed, 14 Mar 2018 04:19:00 +0100.

. ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, Tuesday March 13, 2018 – Seismic officials have increased the alert level for underwater volcano, Kick ‘em Jenny, to orange after recording increased activity. And even after activity declined on Tuesday, the alert
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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),