M 5.6 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 19 Aug 2016 20:37 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 1092181
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 13.89 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.2031 , -32.1207
Event Date: 19 Aug 2016 20:37 UTC
19 Aug 2016 18:37 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Aug 2016 17:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006f9k 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: 1305 | About casualties: 72 | Last hour: 0

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Storm system that could reach South Florida still disorganized, but ma ... Tue, 23 Aug 2016 20:17:00 +0200.

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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),