M 5.6 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 14 Oct 2019 21:33 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 1190511
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.8242 , -27.1124
Event Date: 14 Oct 2019 21:33 UTC
14 Oct 2019 19:33 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Oct 2019 21:36 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
us70005u6q Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 269 | About casualties: 25 | Last hour: 0

California earthquakes just caused a major fault line to move for the ... Fri, 18 Oct 2019 22:02:00 +0200.

The Ridgecrest earthquake in July was the strongest to strike Southern California in 20 years. And the main quake, along with more than 100,000 aftershocks, caused a major fault to move for the first time, researchers say. The movement att
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iStock/doguhakan Calif. quakes moved fault line 21 Mins The Ridgecrest ... Fri, 18 Oct 2019 21:43:00 +0200.

(CNN) - The Ridgecrest earthquake in July was the strongest to strike Southern California in 20 years. And the main quake, along with more than 100,000 aftershocks, caused a major fault to move for the first time, researchers say. The movem
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iStock/doguhakan Calif. quakes moved fault line 14 Mins The Ridgecrest ... Fri, 18 Oct 2019 21:39:00 +0200.

(CNN) - The Ridgecrest earthquake in July was the strongest to strike Southern California in 20 years. And the main quake, along with more than 100,000 aftershocks, caused a major fault to move for the first time, researchers say. The movem
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6.3 earthquake leaves 89 injured, 6 deadFri, 18 Oct 2019 20:21:00 +0200.

Eighty-nine individuals were injured from the 6.3-earthquake that struck Mindanao on Wednesday night, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) report. Of the 89 injured, 68 were from the region of So
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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),