M 5 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 10 May 2017 22:08 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 1112666
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 95.07 Km
Lat/Lon: -56.0667 , -28.0519
Event Date: 10 May 2017 22:08 UTC
10 May 2017 20:08 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 May 2017 22:30 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
us10008ram 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 393 | About casualties: 26 | Last hour: 0

BBC: Militärbas i Indiska Oceanen förvarnades om Tsunamin.!!!Sun, 14 May 2017 21:42:00 +0200.

Thailand HAR Tsunami-VARNINGSSYSTEM!! (Men jänkarna underlät att sända varningar...) Här är en officiell lista över alla länder som ingår i Tsunami-varningssystemet, där THAILAND faktiskt ingår som FULLVÄRDIG MEDLEM "There are 26 member cou
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Fabián Novak: “El Perú y su presidente están en la agenda de Trump”Sun, 14 May 2017 20:59:00 +0200.

Fabián Novak es el actual director del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales de la PUCP . Fue profesor de derecho internacional de la Academia. Diplomática y de la Universidad de Lima. También ha sido maestro en la Escuela Superior de Guerr
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Quake kills two, injures hundreds in IranSun, 14 May 2017 19:57:00 +0200.

TEHRAN: A 5.7 magnitude earthquake near Iran's border with Turkmenistan killed two people, injured hundreds and caused widespread damage, state media reported Sunday, citing the country's seismological centre. The quake, which struck at 180
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Particular experiencia teatral: cuatro personas encerradas en una casi ... Sun, 14 May 2017 19:31:00 +0200.

Cuatro personas se mueven en una casilla de madera 18 metros cuadrados. Se enroscan, saltan, muestran destrezas, bailan en medio de proyecciones. Pero la escena, lejos de ser placentera, angustia. Es que el espectador sabrá, antes de empeza
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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),