M 4.9 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 24 Apr 2022 21:03 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 1320001
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 114.91 Km
Lat/Lon: -57.5571 , -27.0345
Event Date: 24 Apr 2022 21:03 UTC
24 Apr 2022 19:03 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 25 Apr 2022 03:49 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000hg3q Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),