M 5 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 29 Oct 2016 00:40 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 1096775
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 7.29 Km
Lat/Lon: -56.567 , -25.217
Event Date: 29 Oct 2016 00:40 UTC
28 Oct 2016 22:40 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Oct 2016 01:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100072vy 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 745 | About casualties: 89 | Last hour: 0

State adding tsunami warning signs along U.S. 101Wed, 02 Nov 2016 00:29:00 +0100.

The number of distinctive blue and white tsunami signs along U.S. 101 – Oregon's coastal highway – will soon increase from 36 to more than 260. (Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries) The number of distinctive blue and white
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This weekend should be pretty cool, and you get an extra hour, tooWed, 02 Nov 2016 00:23:00 +0100.

Mostly sunny, with a high near 85. Breezy, with an east wind 13 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Mostly sunny, with a high near 85. Breezy, with an east wind 13 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. You might get a chance to sc
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Tsunamis: Japón premia a la Onemi por trabajo realizado en la prevenci ... Wed, 02 Nov 2016 00:20:00 +0100.

Este lunes, en Tokio, el ministerio de Tierra, Infraestructura, Transporte y Turismo de Japón entregó el Premio Hamaguchi a la Oficina Nacional de Emergencia del Ministerio del Interior (Onemi). Este reconcoimiento destaca la labor de la of
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5.9-magnitude quake hits 100km ENE of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea -- ... Tue, 01 Nov 2016 23:46:00 +0100.

HONG KONG,Nov.2(Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale jolted 100km ENE of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea at 19:03:28 GMT on Tuesday ,the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 34.68 km, was initiall
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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),