M 5.1 in South Sandwich Islands Region on 27 Apr 2017 13:35 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 1111390
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 32.86 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.8317 , -30.2192
Event Date: 27 Apr 2017 13:35 UTC
27 Apr 2017 11:35 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Apr 2017 13:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008lac Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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 (1), USGS (2),