M 5.2 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 06 Jul 2020 20:53 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 1225386
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 59.22 Km
Lat/Lon: -58.8345 , -25.6587
Event Date: 06 Jul 2020 20:53 UTC
06 Jul 2020 18:53 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Jul 2020 21:10 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000aj2c Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 314 | About casualties: 41 | 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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),