M 5.1 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 15 Dec 2017 21:53 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 1128791
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 51.06 Km
Lat/Lon: -56.3586 , -26.7386
Event Date: 15 Dec 2017 21:53 UTC
15 Dec 2017 19:53 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Dec 2017 22:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000c537 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 431 | About casualties: 99 | Last hour: 0

Multiple quakes jolt Indonesia, tsunami alert issuedSat, 16 Dec 2017 06:22:00 +0100.

. Multiple quakes have jolted Indonesia's West Java province prompting authorities to issue a tsunami alert, disaster management officials said on Saturday. The initial earthquake measuring 4.5-magnitude occurred in Sukabumi, 48 km southwes
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Earthquake of 6.5 magnitude hits Indonesia’s Java, at least 2 deadSat, 16 Dec 2017 05:48:00 +0100.

A powerful magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck the island of Java in Indonesia just before midnight on Friday, with authorities reporting two deaths and damage to scores of buildings. The US Geological Survey said the epicentre of the quake was
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مقتل شخصين في زلزال قوي يضرب جاوة بإندونيسياSat, 16 Dec 2017 05:22:00 +0100.

قالت هيئة المسح الجيولوجي الأمريكية يوم الجمعة، إن زلزالا بقوة 6.5 درجة ضرب جزيرة جاوة في إندونيسيا وذكرت السلطات أن شخصين على الأقل قتلا ولحقت أضرار بعشرات المباني. وقالت الهيئة إن مركز الزلزال كان على عمق 92 كيلومترا وعلى بعد حوالي 52 كيل
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Strong earthquake rattles Indonesia's Java island; 2 deadSat, 16 Dec 2017 05:21:00 +0100.

A strong earthquake shook Indonesia's densely populated Java island on Friday night, killing two people and severely damaging dozens of homes near the epicenter. The magnitude 6.5 quake struck at 11:47 p.m. and was felt across the island, i
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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),