M 5.7 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 03 Sep 2018 20:35 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 1155739
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -58.0175 , -25.3031
Event Date: 03 Sep 2018 20:35 UTC
03 Sep 2018 18:35 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Sep 2018 21:02 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000h7aj Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  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: 478 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

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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),