M 5 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 15 Jan 2022 17:24 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 1306109
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -58.0492 , -23.7713
Event Date: 15 Jan 2022 17:24 UTC
15 Jan 2022 15:24 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 15 Jan 2022 18:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gc9f Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),