M 5 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 19 Aug 2016 13:42 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 1092165
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.1558 , -31.5865
Event Date: 19 Aug 2016 13:42 UTC
19 Aug 2016 11:42 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Aug 2016 14:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006f18 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

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