M 6.1 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 08 Feb 2020 14:32 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 1205768
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 16.12 Km
Lat/Lon: -60.0165 , -25.4811
Event Date: 08 Feb 2020 14:32 UTC
08 Feb 2020 12:32 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Feb 2020 14:55 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
us70007lik Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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

Articles: 345 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Earthquake off SL east coast; no Tsunami threat to SL-Met dept 3 hours ... Wed, 12 Feb 2020 05:16:00 +0100.

A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck in the North Indian Ocean, near South east coast of Sri Lanka at about 2.34 am today, the Department of Meteorology announced. However, the department said that there is NO tsunami threat to Sri Lanka a
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No tsunami threat from earthquake in Indian Ocean south east of SLWed, 12 Feb 2020 02:32:00 +0100.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.4 has been recorded at 2.34 am today in Indian Ocean off South East coast of Sri Lanka, however, there is no tsunami threat to the island, says the Department of Meteorology. Disclaimer: All the comments will b
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Improve warning system to protect heritage sites from naturalTue, 11 Feb 2020 13:47:00 +0100.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday called upon BIMSTEC countries to improve their early warning dissemination system and capacity building for protection of cultural heritage sites from natural disasters. The heritage sites mus
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Magnitude 6.2 earthquake hits Papua New GuineaTue, 11 Feb 2020 05:16:00 +0100.

SYDNEY, Australia – A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck Papua New Guinea on Sunday, February 9, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage. The quake hit just after 4 pm loca
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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),