M 5.1 in South Sandwich Islands Region on 27 May 2022 11:00 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 1324204
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -59.6407 , -24.1643
Event Date: 27 May 2022 11:00 UTC
27 May 2022 09:00 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 27 May 2022 11:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000hd0m Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  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 (1), USGS (2),