M 4.9 in South Sandwich Islands Region on 05 Jan 2023 04:20 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 1353148
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -59.3657 , -23.6795
Event Date: 05 Jan 2023 04:20 UTC
05 Jan 2023 02:20 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 06 Jan 2023 03:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000j27t Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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 (1), USGS (2),