M 5 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 10 Apr 2017 03:13 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 1109877
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 37.56 Km
Lat/Lon: -56.1538 , -26.509
Event Date: 10 Apr 2017 03:13 UTC
10 Apr 2017 01:13 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Apr 2017 03:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008g5m Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 322 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

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José Toledo presenta documental de conciencia y reflexión a un año del ... Thu, 13 Apr 2017 23:54:00 +0200.

Producción es independiente y se presentará el 16 de abril en tres canales de televisión José Toledo, periodista ecuatoriano, comentó acerca del documental que realizó en conmemoración al año del terremoto que afectó, principalmente, a las
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Fransa ile Japonya Mars'ın uydusunda araştırma yapacakThu, 13 Apr 2017 22:16:00 +0200.

Fransa Uzay Araştırmaları Ulusal Merkezi'nden yapılan açıklamada, Mars Uyduları Araştırma Projesi kapsamında, Mars'ın iki uydusundan gezegene en yakın ve en büyük olan Phobos'a 2024 yılında ulaşılması planlanıyor. Açıklamaya göre proje kaps
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),