M 5 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 27 Nov 2014 11:10 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 1043892
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -57.85 , -25.54
Event Date: 27 Nov 2014 11:10 UTC
27 Nov 2014 09:10 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Nov 2014 11:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

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Moderate earthquake hits northern SumateraMon, 01 Dec 2014 05:41:00 +0100.

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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),