M 5.2 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 15 Feb 2017 03:05 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 1105591
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 71.48 Km
Lat/Lon: -56.0813 , -26.6237
Event Date: 15 Feb 2017 03:05 UTC
15 Feb 2017 01:05 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Feb 2017 03:21 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
us20008jvg Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),