M 5.9 in Southwest Of Africa on 09 Aug 2020 23:42 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 1229556
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -53.0485 , 11.6696
Event Date: 09 Aug 2020 23:42 UTC
10 Aug 2020 00:42 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Aug 2020 01:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000bbmw Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 426 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Magnitude 5.5 quake hits off Sabtang, BatanesThu, 13 Aug 2020 04:44:00 +0200.

MANILA, Philippines — A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck off Sabtang Island, Batanes on Thursday morning, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. There were no immediate reports of damage or injury from the quake
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5.5-magnitude earthquake rattles northern PhilippinesThu, 13 Aug 2020 02:42:00 +0200.

MANILA, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 shook Batanes province in the northern Philippines on Thursday, the Philippine Institute of Seismology and Volcanology (Phivolcs) said. The institute said the qua
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5.5-magnitude earthquake rattles northern PhilippinesThu, 13 Aug 2020 02:31:00 +0200.

MANILA, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 shook Batanes province in the northern Philippines on Thursday, the Philippine Institute of Seismology and Volcanology (Phivolcs) said. The institute said the qua
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5.5-magnitude quake hits BatanesThu, 13 Aug 2020 01:37:00 +0200.

A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Batanes on Thursday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) reported. (Phivolcs/ MANILA BULLETIN) The earthquake, which occurred at 6:32 a.m., was tectonic in origin and was trace
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),