M 5.7 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 26 Jun 2018 01:48 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 1147582
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 27.22 Km
Lat/Lon: -59.542 , -29.7799
Event Date: 26 Jun 2018 01:48 UTC
25 Jun 2018 23:48 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Jun 2018 02:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

For more info on GDACS alert score click here.
  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000f1u8 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 157 | About casualties: 30 | Last hour: 0

Second earthquake in a week ‘not normal for Surrey’Fri, 29 Jun 2018 20:47:00 +0200.

Earthquakes are hitting Surrey for the first time in 40 years, according to scientists. The county has been hit by tremors twice in a week with the latest taking place at a magnitude of 2.4 at 6.54am (BST) in Newdigate on Friday, hitting a
...(more)
Second earthquake in a week ‘not normal for Surrey’Fri, 29 Jun 2018 20:35:00 +0200.

Earthquakes are hitting Surrey for the first time in 40 years, according to scientists. The county has been hit by tremors twice in a week with the latest taking place at a magnitude of 2.4 at 6.54am (BST) in Newdigate on Friday, hitting a
...(more)
Second earthquake in a week ‘not normal for Surrey’Fri, 29 Jun 2018 19:50:00 +0200.

Earthquakes are hitting Surrey for the first time in 40 years, according to scientists. The county has been hit by tremors twice in a week with the latest taking place at a magnitude of 2.4 at 6.54am (BST) in Newdigate on Friday, hitting a
...(more)
Second earthquake in a week ‘not normal for Surrey’Fri, 29 Jun 2018 19:45:00 +0200.

Earthquakes are hitting Surrey for the first time in 40 years, according to scientists. The county has been hit by tremors twice in a week with the latest taking place at a magnitude of 2.4 at 6.54am (BST) in Newdigate on Friday, hitting a
...(more)

View more news

Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),