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  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),