M 4.9 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 24 Mar 2016 05:40 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 1083064
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 61.77 Km
Lat/Lon: -59.751 , -26.5927
Event Date: 24 Mar 2016 05:40 UTC
24 Mar 2016 03:40 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Mar 2016 06:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 616 | About casualties: 18 | Last hour: 0

11:32 Reprochan a fiscal nacional por querer acelerar causas por delit ... Mon, 28 Mar 2016 05:05:00 +0200.

Abogados querellantes de Óscar Tucas casos Penta, SQM, Tsunami y Caval reprocharon las palabras del fiscal nacional, Jorge Abbott, que busca dar soluciones rápidas a las causas de delitos tributarios. Además, el máximo persecutor nacional s
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Facebook : apologises for sending Lahore bomb 'safety check' to users ... Mon, 28 Mar 2016 04:56:00 +0200.

After the deadly attack in Lahore on Sunday, in which at least 69 people were killed and hundreds injured, Facebook users nowhere near the Pakistani city were mistakenly asked if they were safe. Related: Facebook’s censorship of Aboriginal
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Snow, rain help crews fighting Kansas wildfiresMon, 28 Mar 2016 03:55:00 +0200.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Firefighters grappling with the biggest wildfire in Kansas history got a welcomed Easter assist from predawn snowfall over the hardest-hit area, though the looming prospect of flame-fanning winds threatened to undermine the
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Calamity-hit areas: Container schools to be rolled out in K-PMon, 28 Mar 2016 01:30:00 +0200.

PESHAWAR: Containers, usually used to transport goods or block roads in this country, will be put to use in natural disaster-hit areas of the province as schools on a trial basis. Following the footsteps of India, South Africa, Philippines
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),