M 5.5 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 24 Jun 2019 19:21 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 1182968
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -58.007 , -25.3931
Event Date: 24 Jun 2019 19:21 UTC
24 Jun 2019 17:21 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Jun 2019 19:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us600045dg Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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),