M 6 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 16 Dec 2021 21:14 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 1302032
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 15 Km
Lat/Lon: -60.1797 , -23.8018
Event Date: 16 Dec 2021 21:14 UTC
16 Dec 2021 19:14 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 16 Dec 2021 23:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gcxa Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  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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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),