M 6.5 in East Of South Sandwich Islands on 29 Sep 2022 03:03 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 1339738
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.5M
Depth: 11 Km
Lat/Lon: -60.8461 , -20.027
Event Date: 29 Sep 2022 03:03 UTC
29 Sep 2022 02:03 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 29 Sep 2022 20:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us6000ip57 Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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Latest media headlines

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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 (91), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (2), NOAA (1),