M 5 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 31 Mar 2022 15:23 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 1316358
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 49.16 Km
Lat/Lon: -58.0562 , -25.3241
Event Date: 31 Mar 2022 15:23 UTC
31 Mar 2022 13:23 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 01 Apr 2022 17:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gyqv Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 731 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

Italia 7 secondi fa Carrello della spesa alle stelle: olio di semi +23 ... 2022-04-04T15:16+0200.

Se i prezzi per le famiglie corrono, spinte dal caro energia e dalla guerra, l’aumento dei costi colpisce duramente – precisa la Coldiretti – l’intera filiera agroalimentare, con i compensi riconosciuti agli agricoltori e agli allevatori ch
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Vittime del kimono: il terremoto che ha ucciso la tradizione2022-04-04T15:15+0200.

(Di lunedì 4 aprile 2022) Il primo settembre 1923 segna un punto di non ritorno nella tradizione del Giappone. Un disastro che contribuirà all’occidentalizzazione degli abiti e della cultura nipponica. L’origine dei disastri naturali era sp
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Olio, verdura e burro alle stelle: l'aumento dei prezzi secondo Coldir ... 2022-04-04T14:52+0200.

Dal +23,3% dell’olio di semi al +6,2% dei gelati il caro energia alimentato dalla guerra contagia i prezzi nel carrello della spesa con aumenti che interessano ormai tutti i prodotti alimentari e colpiscono duramente i bilanci le famiglie,
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Crack in ground more than 1.5 miles long found at site of 2020 quake i ... 2022-04-04T14:40+0200.

A “rupture” in the ground has been discovered in the North Carolina community that saw widespread damage during a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in 2020, according to a peer-reviewed scientific paper published this month in the Geological Society
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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),