M 5.4 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 30 Mar 2017 13:13 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 1109010
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.6977 , -27.0356
Event Date: 30 Mar 2017 13:13 UTC
30 Mar 2017 11:13 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Mar 2017 13:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008d9x Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Tsunami cause e rimedi 4/3/2017 11:17:00 AM.

di Domenico Bibbò. Le cause che provocano uno tsunami sono diverse. La meno probabile, ma comunque possibile, è l’impatto di un asteroide o di un meteorite in mare, mentre più frequenti sono disturbi di tipo sottomarino: un collasso vulcani
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),