M 4.9 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 23 Jun 2016 08:49 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 1088685
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 38.15 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.5555 , -26.853
Event Date: 23 Jun 2016 08:49 UTC
23 Jun 2016 06:49 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Jun 2016 12:54 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000667u 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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),