M 4.9 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 19 Aug 2016 10:00 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 1092161
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.0652 , -31.6786
Event Date: 19 Aug 2016 10:00 UTC
19 Aug 2016 08:00 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Aug 2016 13:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006ez3 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 1246 | About casualties: 76 | Last hour: 0

The foundations of Pacific stabilityTue, 23 Aug 2016 09:43:00 +0200.

This month, I completed a two-week, six-stop tour of the Pacific, beginning with a visit to the United States Army’s 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii. It was a fitting way to start the trip, a reminder that the US Army is critical to formin
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Catorce detenidos por vender marisco con radiación procedente de Fukus ... Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:39:00 +0200.

La policía del puerto chino de Qingdao detuvo a catorce personas sospechosas de introducir ilegalmente en China marisco con altos niveles de radiación procedentes de aguas próximas a Fukushima, la prefectura nipona afectada por un accidente
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Catorce detenidos por vender marisco con radiación procedente de Fukus ... Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:39:00 +0200.

La policía del puerto chino de Qingdao detuvo a catorce personas sospechosas de introducir ilegalmente en China marisco con altos niveles de radiación procedentes de aguas próximas a Fukushima, la prefectura nipona afectada por un accidente
...(more)
Catorce detenidos por vender marisco con radiación procedente de Fukus ... Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:38:00 +0200.

La policía del puerto chino de Qingdao detuvo a catorce personas sospechosas de introducir ilegalmente en China marisco con altos niveles de radiación procedentes de aguas próximas a Fukushima, la prefectura nipona afectada por un accidente
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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