M 5.2 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 20 Aug 2016 00:15 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 1092193
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.0828 , -32.0177
Event Date: 20 Aug 2016 00:15 UTC
19 Aug 2016 22:15 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Aug 2016 00:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006fbm 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: 1343 | About casualties: 71 | Last hour: 0

Crews hauling away debris as Louisiana cleanup continuesWed, 24 Aug 2016 00:08:00 +0200.

BATON ROUGE, La. – Heavy trucks and their works crews have begun hauling away mounds of moldy carpet, warped flooring and water-damaged furniture as south Louisiana digs out from flooding the governor estimated Tuesday had wrecked more than
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Crews hauling away debris as Louisiana cleanup continuesWed, 24 Aug 2016 00:02:00 +0200.

By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press. BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Heavy trucks and their works crews have begun hauling away mounds of moldy carpet, warped flooring and water-damaged furniture as south Louisiana digs out from flooding the gover
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Crews hauling away debris as Louisiana cleanup continuesWed, 24 Aug 2016 00:01:00 +0200.

By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press. BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Heavy trucks and their works crews have begun hauling away mounds of moldy carpet, warped flooring and water-damaged furniture as south Louisiana digs out from flooding the gover
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Crews hauling away debris as Louisiana cleanup continuesTue, 23 Aug 2016 23:58:00 +0200.

By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press. BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Heavy trucks and their works crews have begun hauling away mounds of moldy carpet, warped flooring and water-damaged furniture as south Louisiana digs out from flooding the gover
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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),