M 4.7 in South Sandwich Islands Region on 30 Dec 2016 05:20 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 1102112
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -55.1741 , -30.7631
Event Date: 30 Dec 2016 05:20 UTC
30 Dec 2016 03:20 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Dec 2016 07:05 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007npb Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),