M 5.6 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 31 Aug 2021 14:24 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 1284033
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 26.03 Km
Lat/Lon: -57.0435 , -25.1732
Event Date: 31 Aug 2021 14:24 UTC
31 Aug 2021 12:24 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 31 Aug 2021 15:05 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
us7000f67h Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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La Protection civile dans l'impossibilité de soutenir des zones diffic ... 2021-09-04T07:15+0200.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),