M 4.8 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 19 Aug 2016 21:05 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 1092183
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.1003 , -32.0781
Event Date: 19 Aug 2016 21:05 UTC
19 Aug 2016 19:05 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Aug 2016 21:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006f9s 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: 1314 | About casualties: 72 | Last hour: 0

In dry, windy West, crews target flames in several statesTue, 23 Aug 2016 21:00:00 +0200.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. – Growing wildfires stoked by windy, dry conditions have destroyed buildings and forced evacuations in California, Washington, Montana and elsewhere. Here's a look at the major wildfires in the West: WYOMING.
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More firefighters head to YellowstoneTue, 23 Aug 2016 21:00:00 +0200.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — The Latest on wildfires burning in the Western United States (all times local): 9:30 a.m. More firefighters are headed to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks in northwest Wyoming. A fire in Gran
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In dry, windy West, crews target flames in several statesTue, 23 Aug 2016 20:57:00 +0200.

A charred truck is seen near the home of Julie and Art Thayer on South Yale Road near Valleyford, Wash., on Monday, Aug 22, 2016. The Thayers had been hiking over the weekend and returned home Sunday night to find their home destroyed. (Tyl
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In dry, windy West, crews target flames in several statesTue, 23 Aug 2016 20:55:00 +0200.

Growing wildfires stoked by windy, dry conditions have destroyed buildings and forced evacuations in California, Washington, Montana and elsewhere. Here's a look at the major wildfires in the West: WYOMING. More firefighters headed to Yello
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),