M 5 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 19 Dec 2021 08:09 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 1302424
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -58.0056 , -25.2266
Event Date: 19 Dec 2021 08:09 UTC
19 Dec 2021 06:09 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 19 Dec 2021 08:34 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gdjy 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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),