M 5.6 in South Sandwich Islands Region on 30 Aug 2016 15:46 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 1092938
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.3152 , -30.4345
Event Date: 30 Aug 2016 15:46 UTC
30 Aug 2016 13:46 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Aug 2016 16:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006vdg 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: 596 | About casualties: 16 | Last hour: 0

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US Geological Survey Earthquake reported near Pawnee, OklahomaSat, 03 Sep 2016 15:35:00 +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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),