M 4.8 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 02 Apr 2016 14:35 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 1083584
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 73.99 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.9423 , -27.6898
Event Date: 02 Apr 2016 14:35 UTC
02 Apr 2016 12:35 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Apr 2016 14:54 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),