Overall Green Earthquake in South Shetland Islands on 20 Mar 2026 00:22 UTC

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M 6.6 in South Shetland Islands on 20 Mar 2026 00:22 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 1530009
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.6M
Depth:	4.9 Km
Lat/Lon:	-61.1525 , -56.2683
Event Date:	20 Mar 2026 00:22 UTC 19 Mar 2026 20:22 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at:	20 Mar 2026 00:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		Tsunami		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0		0
us6000shlp	Scaled population (raster)	0	Max wave alert	0m
	C1 shakemap	0	Max wave realtime	0m
	C2 shakemap	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (90), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (2),

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