M 5 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 21 Sep 2016 14:46 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 1094388
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 37.79 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.7937 , -27.5378
Event Date: 21 Sep 2016 14:46 UTC
21 Sep 2016 12:46 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Sep 2016 15:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006rcl 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: 1071 | About casualties: 17 | Last hour: 0

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De opvallende rol van maan en getijden bij zware aardbevingenSun, 25 Sep 2016 13:00:00 +0200.

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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),