M 6.3 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 15 Nov 2018 20:02 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 1162384
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -56.778 , -25.3862
Event Date: 15 Nov 2018 20:02 UTC
15 Nov 2018 18:02 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Nov 2018 21:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us1000hsaf Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (91), (5), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),