M 5 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 12 Dec 2021 08:46 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 1301139
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -59.4012 , -25.8042
Event Date: 12 Dec 2021 08:46 UTC
12 Dec 2021 06:46 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 12 Dec 2021 09:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gblm 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

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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),