M 5.3 in South Sandwich Islands Region on 24 Feb 2017 05:59 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 1106307
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.2851 , -30.6451
Event Date: 24 Feb 2017 05:59 UTC
24 Feb 2017 03:59 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Feb 2017 06:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008lyf 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: 546 | About casualties: 15 | Last hour: 0

Ride removed eight months after crashTue, 28 Feb 2017 05:48:00 +0100.

A rollercoaster at the centre of a safety investigation after a carriage flew off its rails at 40mph and injured ten people has been removed from a theme park eight months after the crash. The Tsunami ride at M&D’s in Motherwell was dismant
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Marlborough to launch tourism offensive in Nelson and the North IslandTue, 28 Feb 2017 05:41:00 +0100.

Tourism funding for Marlborough will be used to attract tourists from further up the country, offsetting a slump in Cantabrian visitors post-quake. A new $150,000 government grant will be used on a campaign targeting the lower North Island,
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Ride removed eight months after crashTue, 28 Feb 2017 05:39:00 +0100.

A rollercoaster at the centre of a safety investigation after a carriage flew off its rails at 40mph and injured ten people has been removed from a theme park eight months after the crash. The Tsunami ride at M&D’s in Motherwell was dismant
...(more)
More than 80 percent of all wildfires caused by humans, new study saysTue, 28 Feb 2017 05:37:00 +0100.

Even as climate change worsens the nation’s fire season — making it longer and easier to burn more acres — researchers said human activities play an even bigger role. In Southern California, large populations living in close proximity to fi
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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),