M 5.8 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 19 Aug 2016 17:33 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 1092178
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 4.34 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.2088 , -32.0731
Event Date: 19 Aug 2016 17:33 UTC
19 Aug 2016 15:33 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Aug 2016 14:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006f6x 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

Articles: 1280 | About casualties: 72 | Last hour: 0

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بكين 23 آب (بترا)- اعتقلت الشرطة الصينية 14 شخصا يشتبه في قيامهم باستيراد مأكولات بحرية تحتوي على مستويات عالية من الإشعاع، صيدت أسماكها في مياه قريبة من محافظة فوكوشيما اليابانية. وكانت العصابة قد هربت خلال العامين الماضيين 5 آلاف طن من ال
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Catorce detenidos por vender marisco con radiaciónTue, 23 Aug 2016 16:44:00 +0200.

EFE La banda había introducido de contrabando los pasados dos años 5.000 toneladas de mariscos como cangrejos o gambas, valorados en 230 millones de yuanes (34,5 millones de dólares, 30,5 millones de euros). Parte de ese marisco procedía de
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¡Desastre! El tifón Mindulle deja un saldo mortal en JapónTue, 23 Aug 2016 16:32:00 +0200.

Un saldo de un muerto y 60 heridos dejó el tifón Mindulle que golpeó el lunes Japón, donde debieron ser anulados 500 vuelos, informó la estación televisiva estatal NHK. El ciclón, noveno de la temporada, golpeó en el sudeste y luego afectó
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),