M 5.6 Off-shore on 06 Jan 2020 01:29 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 1200806
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.24 , -16.9938
Event Date: 06 Jan 2020 01:29 UTC
06 Jan 2020 00:29 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Jan 2020 03:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70006v42 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  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: 1323 | About casualties: 59 | Last hour: 0

BC-CB--Puerto Rico-Earth, 0703Fri, 10 Jan 2020 01:58:00 +0100.

Contributed by NAMPA / Associated Press. Puerto Rico earthquake aftermath deepens as govt seeks help <
Puerto Rico is struggling to recover from from a 6.4-magnitude earthquake that killed one person, injured nine others and severely
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Puerto Rico earthquake aftermath deepens as govt seeks helpFri, 10 Jan 2020 01:48:00 +0100.

SAN JUAN (AP) — More than 2,000 people in shelters. Nearly one million without power. Hundreds of thousands without water. The aftermath of a 6.4-magnitude earthquake that killed one person, injured nine others and severely damaged infrastr
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Sufre Indonesia de varios desastres naturalesFri, 10 Jan 2020 01:24:00 +0100.

Yakarta, (RHC) Dos sismos en un día y otro el anterior, desastrosas inundaciones y un amenazador volcán, mantienen una alerta sin precedente en Indonesia. En la tarde del martes, un fuerte sismo de magnitud 6,2 estremeció al noroeste del pa
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National Major Puerto Rico power plant could be down for a year Justin ... Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:27:00 +0100.

Following a 6.4 magnitude earthquake earlier this week, a government official said that major provider of electricity in Puerto Rico could be down for "over a year." The operations manager at the Costa Sur Power Plant told that "Most of th
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),