M 4.9 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 08 Jan 2022 15:56 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 1305102
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -58.815 , -24.9718
Event Date: 08 Jan 2022 15:56 UTC
08 Jan 2022 13:56 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 09 Jan 2022 00:37 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ga77 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),