M 6.1 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 14 Aug 2018 03:29 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 1153665
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -58.1107 , -25.2588
Event Date: 14 Aug 2018 03:29 UTC
14 Aug 2018 01:29 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Aug 2018 03:52 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000g8kf Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),