M 4.9 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 17 Dec 2017 14:06 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 1128930
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -57.8682 , -25.4427
Event Date: 17 Dec 2017 14:06 UTC
17 Dec 2017 12:06 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Dec 2017 14:52 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000c5en Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 298 | About casualties: 64 | Last hour: 0

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5.4 QUAKE JOLTS NORTHERN MARIANASSun, 17 Dec 2017 18:54:00 +0100.

No harm reported. By Ferdie de la Torre SAIPAN, CNMI (Saipan Tribune, May 3, 2010) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 on the Richter scale jolted the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) yesterday morning. The Emergency
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Au moins trois morts dans un séismeSun, 17 Dec 2017 18:48:00 +0100.

Un séisme de magnitude 6, 5 a frappé vendredi soir Java, la principale île d’Indonésie, faisant au moins trois morts et secouant des bâtiments de la capitale Jakarta. La secousse a été enregistrée à une profondeur de 91 kilomètres et à moin
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Small earthquake off South Texas coast in Gulf of MexicoSun, 17 Dec 2017 18:04:00 +0100.

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) - A small earthquake has been detected off the coast of South Texas. The U.S. Geological Survey says the rare 3.0 magnitude temblor Saturday afternoon northeast of South Padre Island in the Gulf of Mexico like
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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),