M 5 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 29 May 2017 04:55 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 1114033
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 11.56 Km
Lat/Lon: -56.2961 , -25.6819
Event Date: 29 May 2017 04:55 UTC
29 May 2017 02:55 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 May 2017 05:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008vzy 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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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),