M 4.8 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 31 Aug 2021 18:27 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 1284052
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 32.43 Km
Lat/Lon: -60.1686 , -24.0502
Event Date: 31 Aug 2021 18:27 UTC
31 Aug 2021 16:27 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 31 Aug 2021 18:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000f6ck Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 334 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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Disasters in August 2021 afflicted greater destruction than 2020: BNPB2021-09-04T13:29+0200.

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Some 155 natural disasters reported in August 2021 were lesser than the corresponding period last year, albeit causing a higher level of destruction, an official of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) stated. "
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Torbeck, de l'autre côté de la ravine du Sud, des victimes du séisme s ... 2021-09-04T07:15+0200.

Solon et de Moreau, respectivement 3e et 4e section communale de Torbeck, sont les plus touchées de cette commune du département du Sud. Pourtant situées de l'autre côté de la ravine du Sud, ces victimes du séisme de magnitude 7.2 du 14 aoû
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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),