M 6.2 in Antigua and Barbuda on 20 Jan 2023 11:23 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 1355127
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 166.372 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.131 , -62.1564
Event Date: 20 Jan 2023 11:23 UTC
20 Jan 2023 07:23 Local
Exposed Population: 490 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 20 Jan 2023 11:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)
Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us7000j5sc Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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 (91), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (2), NOAA (1),