M 5.6 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 16 Mar 2018 09:25 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 1137690
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -56.4817 , -25.7344
Event Date: 16 Mar 2018 09:25 UTC
16 Mar 2018 07:25 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Mar 2018 09:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000d55l Scaled population (vector) -8  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 235 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),