M 6 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 25 Jan 2022 01:24 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 1307405
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 11 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.3588 , -28.7401
Event Date: 25 Jan 2022 01:24 UTC
24 Jan 2022 23:24 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 27 Jan 2022 05:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gery Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),