M 4.8 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 04 Mar 2019 04:49 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 1172468
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 103.59 Km
Lat/Lon: -56.0893 , -27.4671
Event Date: 04 Mar 2019 04:49 UTC
04 Mar 2019 02:49 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Mar 2019 06:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000ja9v 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, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),