M 5.4 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 26 Jul 2016 16:32 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 1090705
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.6638 , -26.6719
Event Date: 26 Jul 2016 16:32 UTC
26 Jul 2016 14:32 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Jul 2016 18:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006hux 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),