M 5 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 10 May 2017 22:08 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 1112666
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 95.07 Km
Lat/Lon: -56.0667 , -28.0519
Event Date: 10 May 2017 22:08 UTC
10 May 2017 20:08 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 May 2017 22:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10008ram 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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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),