M 4.7 in South Shetland Islands on 25 Oct 2020 23:06 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 1240906
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -62.26 , -58.4032
Event Date: 25 Oct 2020 23:06 UTC
25 Oct 2020 20:06 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Oct 2020 23:58 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000cd3n Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),