M 5.1 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 17 Jan 2017 09:22 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 1103405
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 91.68 Km
Lat/Lon: -56.8549 , -26.0493
Event Date: 17 Jan 2017 09:22 UTC
17 Jan 2017 07:22 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jan 2017 09:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10007tmm Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 732 | About casualties: 45 | Last hour: 0

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Four more survivors extracted from Italian hotel hit by avalancheSat, 21 Jan 2017 08:56:00 +0100.

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Four more survivors extracted from Italian hotel hit by avalancheSat, 21 Jan 2017 08:09:00 +0100.

. PENNE, Italy - Four people were pulled alive from the wreckage of a luxury hotel that was demolished on Wednesday by a deadly avalanche, bringing the number of survivors to nine, the national fire service said on Saturday. The two men an
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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),