M 4.8 in Antarctica on 30 Sep 2020 16:58 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 1237494
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -62.3305 , -58.559
Event Date: 30 Sep 2020 16:58 UTC
30 Sep 2020 13:58 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Sep 2020 20:52 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000c39r Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 5 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Trump announces plan to deploy 150M Covid rapid testsTue, 29 Sep 2020 06:34:00 +0200.

died from Covid-19. In eight months, more than 33 million people have been diagnosed with coronavirus, across nearly every country. The disease has taken lives on every continent except Antarctica -- and more than one million people have di
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Global coronavirus death toll crosses 1 million-markTue, 29 Sep 2020 06:27:00 +0200.

The World Health Organisation declared the outbreak a 'pandemic' in March. The total number of coronavirus cases across the world has crossed 33 million, while nearly 23 million patients have recovered, Al Jazeera reported. IMAGE: Health w
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Chancellor confirmed the process of expanding the continental shelfWed, 23 Sep 2020 01:04:00 +0200.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luis Gallegos , verified the progress of the technical work for the process of expanding the continental shelf , the first partial presentation of which will be held in December 2020, within the United Natio
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Descartan riesgo de tsunami en costas chilenas tras sismo en la Antárt ... Tue, 01 Sep 2020 13:28:00 +0200.

El Servicio Hidrográfico y Oceánico de la Armada (SHOA), descartó la posibilidad de un tsunami en el territorio chileno Antártico y en las costas del sur de Chile, luego de que se registrara un sismo de 5,2. El movimiento telúrico se ubicó
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),