M 5.2 in Antarctica on 31 Mar 2021 06:53 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 1262933
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -60.439 , -47.4482
Event Date: 31 Mar 2021 06:53 UTC
31 Mar 2021 03:53 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Mar 2021 07:38 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000dxun Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 44 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Our restless planetSat, 06 Mar 2021 18:35:00 +0100.

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Uruguayos evacuados en la Antártida por alerta de tsunamiSat, 06 Mar 2021 06:06:00 +0100.

El ministro de Defensa Nacional, Javier García, informó que por la noche del jueves se evacuó la base antártica Artigas por la alerta de Tsunami. También se encuentran bajo alerta Nueva Zelanda, Chile, El Salvador y Guatemala tras tres fuer
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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),