M 4.9 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 21 Sep 2016 00:38 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 1094343
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -54.9555 , -32.0497
Event Date: 21 Sep 2016 00:38 UTC
20 Sep 2016 22:38 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Sep 2016 01:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006r97 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1030 | About casualties: 32 | Last hour: 0

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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),