M 5.5 in Mongolia on 20 Mar 2020 03:03 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 1210739
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 46.0556 , 93.9586
Event Date: 20 Mar 2020 03:03 UTC
20 Mar 2020 10:03 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VII
About 8000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Mar 2020 03:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.1 (Mongolia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70008cmt Scaled population (raster) -0.3  
  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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Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 6 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Earthquake hits Mongolia’s Gobi-AltaiFri, 20 Mar 2020 12:25:00 +0100.

Earlier today (20 March), a 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck Gobi-Altai, a western province of Mongolia. According to the Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, the epicenter of the earthquake was 30 km east of the centre of the Tonkhil Soum
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Earthquake rescue drill held in Inner MongoliaSat, 14 Mar 2020 06:16:00 +0100.

A staff member checks body temperatures of fire and rescue personnel taking part in an earthquake rescue drill held in Wuhai City, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, March 13, 2020. More than 200 fire and rescue personnel from
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Earthquake rescue drill held in Inner MongoliaSat, 14 Mar 2020 00:39:00 +0100.

A staff member checks body temperatures of fire and rescue personnel taking part in an earthquake rescue drill held in Wuhai City, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, March 13, 2020. More than 200 fire and rescue personnel from
...(more)
Earthquake tremor shakes ErdenetTue, 03 Mar 2020 13:37:00 +0100.

A magnitude 5 earthquake was reported earlier today (3 March) near Erdenet, the third largest city in Mongolia. According to the Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, the earthquake occurred at 3.16 p.m. and the epicenter was 6 km from the
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),