M 5.9 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 22 Dec 2021 05:51 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 1302860
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -57.7804 , -25.2635
Event Date: 22 Dec 2021 05:51 UTC
22 Dec 2021 03:51 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 22 Dec 2021 06:15 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000geea Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),