M 4.9 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 20 Aug 2016 09:01 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 1092210
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.1333 , -32.1026
Event Date: 20 Aug 2016 09:01 UTC
20 Aug 2016 07:01 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Aug 2016 09:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006fdq 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

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Un fort séisme de magnitude 6,2 a secoué le centre de la péninsule italienne mercredi vers 3h30 heure locale et a été ressenti à Rome, ont indiqué l'Institut américain de géologie (USGS) et des journalistes de l'AFP. © Fournis par BFMNews.
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Quake brings down buildings in central Italy, at least 10 believed kil ... Wed, 24 Aug 2016 08:50:00 +0200.

By Steve Scherer. ACCUMOLI, ITALY — A strong earthquake brought down buildings in mountainous central Italy early on Wednesday, trapping residents and sending others fleeing into the streets, with at least 10 people believed killed. The qua
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In dusty and windy West, crews target flamesWed, 24 Aug 2016 08:48:00 +0200.

WYOMING. More firefighters headed to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, where large, growing wildfires have closed or threaten key roads and forced the evacuation of a large campground during a busy stretch of the summer tourist se
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Wildf ires prompt emergency in WashingtonWed, 24 Aug 2016 08:48:00 +0200.

SPOKANE — Several wildfires continued to burn in Eastern Washington Tuesday and Gov. Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency for 20 counties. Firefighters appeared to be gaining the upper hand against wildfires burning in the Spokane regio
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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),