M 5.6 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 25 Jul 2018 19:45 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 1151598
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 120.83 Km
Lat/Lon: -56.0646 , -27.6479
Event Date: 25 Jul 2018 19:45 UTC
25 Jul 2018 17:45 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Jul 2018 06:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000gdsq Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 267 | About casualties: 82 | Last hour: 0

Sismo de magnitud 6.4 deja 14 muertos en IndonesiaSun, 29 Jul 2018 17:38:00 +0200.

YAKARTA.- Al menos 104 réplicas se han producido en el área de la isla de Lombok, en el sur de Indonesia, tras el potente sismo de magnitud 6.4 que dejó 14 muertos y 160 heridos , además de dejar miles de edificios dañados, de acuerdo con r
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Al menos 14 muertos por sismo en IndonesiaSun, 29 Jul 2018 15:22:00 +0200.

Al menos 104 réplicas se han producido en el área de la isla de Lombok, en el sur de Indonesia , tras el potente sismo de magnitud 6.4 que dejó 14 muertos y 160 heridos , además de miles de edificios dañados, de acuerdo con reportes prelimi
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Cientos de réplicas se han producido en la isla de Lombok, en Indonesi ... Sun, 29 Jul 2018 15:19:00 +0200.

Al menos 104 réplicas se han producido en el área de la isla de Lombok, en el sur de Indonesia, tras el potente sismo de magnitud 6.4 que dejó 14 muertos y 160 heridos, además de dejar miles de edificios dañados, de acuerdo con reportes pre
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14 Dead In Indonesia EarthquakeSun, 29 Jul 2018 15:14:00 +0200.

The 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit the popular island of Lombok. At least 14 people have been killed and dozens injured after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake on a popular tourist island in Indonesia. The powerful tremor, which was followed by two
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),