M 6.4 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 21 Aug 2016 03:45 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 1092248
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.2775 , -31.7546
Event Date: 21 Aug 2016 03:45 UTC
21 Aug 2016 01:45 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Aug 2016 04:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006fik 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

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),