M 4.8 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 02 Sep 2016 16:55 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 1093161
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 33.25 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.3104 , -31.5077
Event Date: 02 Sep 2016 16:55 UTC
02 Sep 2016 14:55 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Sep 2016 17:15 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006jpq 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: 1662 | About casualties: 55 | Last hour: 0

Hermine es fenómeno postropical y se mueve cerca de la costa noreste d ... Tue, 06 Sep 2016 16:38:00 +0200.

EFE. El Centro Nacional de Huracanes (NHC) de EE.UU. indicó en su boletín más reciente que Hermine se mueve hoy en dirección oeste con una velocidad de traslación de 6 millas por hora (10 km/h) y se encuentra a 95 millas (155 km/h) al sur d
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Flash flood watch issued for southern, south-central ArizonaTue, 06 Sep 2016 16:31:00 +0200.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Much of southern and south-central Arizona will be under flash flood watches from Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday evening as tropical moisture associated with Hurricane Newton flows into the region. Watch areas incl
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Une chaleur suffocante toute la semaineTue, 06 Sep 2016 16:30:00 +0200.

La température atteindra respectivement 37 et 42 dans les villes du nord et du sud du pays. Une baisse est attendue en revanche à partir de samedi prochain. Cette chaleur a poussé des dizaines de familles à prolonger leur congé pour profite
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Une chaleur suffocante toute la semaineTue, 06 Sep 2016 16:29:00 +0200.

La température atteindra respectivement 37 et 42 dans les villes du nord et du sud du pays. Une baisse est attendue en revanche à partir de samedi prochain. Cette chaleur a poussé des dizaines de familles à prolonger leur congé pour profite
...(more)

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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),