M 4.8 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 16 Nov 2016 07:43 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 1098544
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -59.3262 , -25.0789
Event Date: 16 Nov 2016 07:43 UTC
16 Nov 2016 05:43 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Nov 2016 08:10 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100078py 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: 984 | About casualties: 20 | Last hour: 0

Earthquake: Gerry Brownlee says 'there has been a breakdown' in quake ... Sun, 20 Nov 2016 00:36:00 +0100.

Acting Civil Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee says he has no doubt "there has been a breakdown" in the response to last Monday's magnitude 7.8 earthquake. Brownlee appeared on TVNZ's Q+A show this morning and was asked by host Jessica Mutch
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العولمة تقصم ظهور الأحزاب التقليدية في أوروبا وتهدد بانهيارهاSun, 20 Nov 2016 00:32:00 +0100.

تقف الأحزاب التقليدية يمينية واشتراكية ديموقراطية (يسارية) المتناوبة على الحكم في أوروبا منذ عقود عاجزة أمام خطر ذوبان وتبخر قواعدها الشعبية، وهي ظاهرة بدأت منذ ثمانينات القرن الماضي، وتسارعت وتائرها خلال العقد الأول من القرن الحادي والعشري
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[Reportage] Haïti: un vote d’espoir pour les survivants de la catastro ... Sat, 19 Nov 2016 23:33:00 +0100.

Ce dimanche 20 novembre 2016, des élections présidentielle et législatives partielles se tiennent en Haïti. Ces scrutins auraient dû se tenir le 9 octobre mais ont été reportés en raison du passage de l’ouragan Matthew qui a dévasté une gra
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Different areas need different tsunami warnings - expertSat, 19 Nov 2016 23:32:00 +0100.

The Government's planned tsunami text alert system should tailor its messages depending on people's location, a tech expert has recommended. Acting Civil Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee on Saturday admitted there were significant delays in
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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),