M 5.1 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 19 Aug 2017 07:33 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 1119601
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.5943 , -29.2735
Event Date: 19 Aug 2017 07:33 UTC
19 Aug 2017 05:33 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Aug 2017 07:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000a9q2 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: 503 | About casualties: 22 | Last hour: 0

Italy mourns Amatrice, where quake wounds still weepWed, 23 Aug 2017 07:18:00 +0200.

A year to the minute that a earthquake struck the Amatrice region, Italy on Thursday will remember the 299 victims killed in the night-time disaster that still haunts the country. Survivors will hold a candle-lit procession in the early hou
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Italy mourns Amatrice, where quake wounds still weepWed, 23 Aug 2017 06:57:00 +0200.

Survivors will hold a candle-lit procession in the early hours, even as Ischia island to the south, recovers from Italy's latest quake -- and critics again criticise the government for failing to shore-up the nation's poorly constructed bui
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Italy mourns Amatrice, where quake wounds still weepWed, 23 Aug 2017 06:39:00 +0200.

Rome (AFP) - A year to the minute that a earthquake struck the Amatrice region, Italy on Thursday will remember the 299 victims killed in the night-time disaster that still haunts the country. Survivors will hold a candle-lit procession in
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Al menos dos muertos y varios heridos por terremoto en ItaliaWed, 23 Aug 2017 06:21:00 +0200.

Al menos dos personas han muerto y una veintena han resultado heridas de diversa gravedad en un terremoto de magnitud 4 que ha sacudido esta noche la isla italiana de Ischia, frente a la ciudad de Nápoles, en el sur del país. Los equipos de
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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),