M 5.6 in Antarctica on 15 Jun 2016 06:58 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 1088216
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 8.21 Km
Lat/Lon: -62.399 , 166.5035
Event Date: 15 Jun 2016 06:58 UTC
15 Jun 2016 17:58 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Jun 2016 16:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200064hq Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),