M 4.8 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 18 Sep 2018 23:44 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 1157038
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 106.92 Km
Lat/Lon: -56.3386 , -27.3711
Event Date: 18 Sep 2018 23:44 UTC
18 Sep 2018 21:44 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Sep 2018 00:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000hgwf 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: 295 | About casualties: 19 | Last hour: 0

The Latest: Soldier's home robbed during hurricane workSat, 22 Sep 2018 23:05:00 +0200.

Multiple media outlets report that National Guardsman Luis Ocampo was working in storm-battered New Bern for 10 days and found his Charlotte home ransacked when he returned Friday. Ocampo said he found everything of value had been stolen, i
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The Latest: Soldier's home robbed during hurricane workSat, 22 Sep 2018 23:02:00 +0200.

A North Carolina soldier returned home after helping with the Hurricane Florence relief effort to find his home had been robbed. Multiple media outlets report that National Guardsman Luis Ocampo was working in storm-battered New Bern for 10
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The Latest: NC officials announce 3 routes to WilmingtonSat, 22 Sep 2018 22:37:00 +0200.

Multiple media outlets report that National Guardsman Luis Ocampo was working in storm-battered New Bern for 10 days and found his Charlotte home ransacked when he returned Friday. Ocampo said he found everything of value had been stolen, i
...(more)
The Latest: Soldier's home robbed during hurricane workSat, 22 Sep 2018 22:35:00 +0200.

Multiple media outlets report that National Guardsman Luis Ocampo was working in storm-battered New Bern for 10 days and found his Charlotte home ransacked when he returned Friday. Ocampo said he found everything of value had been stolen, i
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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),