M 5.2 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 06 Jun 2020 08:05 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 1221202
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 53.34 Km
Lat/Lon: -57.7646 , -25.2572
Event Date: 06 Jun 2020 08:05 UTC
06 Jun 2020 06:05 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Jun 2020 08:22 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000a72v 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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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),