M 5 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 25 Sep 2017 06:18 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 1122285
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 23.15 Km
Lat/Lon: -59.0289 , -25.7407
Event Date: 25 Sep 2017 06:18 UTC
25 Sep 2017 04:18 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Sep 2017 07:16 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000au57 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 953 | About casualties: 32 | Last hour: 0

Sea critters survive longest ever marine migrationFri, 29 Sep 2017 06:06:00 +0200.

Nearly 300 species of fish, mussels and other sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami, washing ashore alive in the US. It's the largest and longest marine migration ever documented, outside
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Tras el tsunami, cientos de especies atravesaron el océano aferradas a ... Fri, 29 Sep 2017 05:54:00 +0200.

Centenares de especies de animales marinos atravesaron el océano Pacífico aferrados a restos y desechos del tsunami que devastó Japón en 2011, según un estudio publicado este jueves en la revista estadounidense Science. Un total de 289 espe
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Sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific on tsunami debrisFri, 29 Sep 2017 05:43:00 +0200.

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer. WASHINGTON (AP) - Nearly 300 species of fish, mussels and other sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami, washing ashore alive in the United States, rese
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Japanese Tsunami Debris Carried New Species to U.S.Fri, 29 Sep 2017 05:41:00 +0200.

March 11, 2011, had started like any other for thousands of mussels along the Japanese coastline, another busy day clinging to docks and straining snacks out of the water. Until 2:46 p.m. local time , that is, when two warring chunks of the
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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),