M 5 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 30 Mar 2017 21:58 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 1109039
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10.61 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.4397 , -28.0883
Event Date: 30 Mar 2017 21:58 UTC
30 Mar 2017 19:58 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Mar 2017 22:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008ddw Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Strong quake shakes Botswana as buildings trembleMon, 03 Apr 2017 21:46:00 +0200.

. A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck nearly 250 km north-northwest of the Botswana capital Gaborone on Monday, at depth of 12 km (7 miles), the US Geological Survey said. Tremors were also felt in neighbouring South Africa. “We certainly fe
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#Tremor sways buildings in DurbanMon, 03 Apr 2017 21:33:00 +0200.

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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),