M 5.1 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 04 Apr 2020 01:52 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 1212759
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 72.96 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.9099 , -27.744
Event Date: 04 Apr 2020 01:52 UTC
03 Apr 2020 23:52 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Apr 2020 02:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70008n9q Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),