M 4.6 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 29 Oct 2016 08:07 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 1096794
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 67.29 Km
Lat/Lon: -57.8887 , -25.4658
Event Date: 29 Oct 2016 08:07 UTC
29 Oct 2016 06:07 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Oct 2016 09:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100072xh 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

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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),