M 5.1 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 22 Aug 2016 08:32 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 1092317
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.1953 , -31.8756
Event Date: 22 Aug 2016 08:32 UTC
22 Aug 2016 06:32 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Aug 2016 08:57 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006fq5 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 678 | About casualties: 90 | Last hour: 0

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Seísmo de magnitud 5,2 sacude provincia de Manabi, en el suroeste de E ... Fri, 26 Aug 2016 08:03:00 +0200.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),