M 5.6 in South Sandwich Islands Region on 04 Apr 2017 13:53 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 1109389
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 16.93 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.6173 , -29.9999
Event Date: 04 Apr 2017 13:53 UTC
04 Apr 2017 11:53 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Apr 2017 19:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008eak Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

12:46 Back-to-back quakes spark panic in Philippine resort 4/8/2017 1:47:00 PM.

Officials said a magitude 5.6 earthquake struck near Mabini town in Batangas province at midafternoon, followed shortly by a magnitude 6 quake, prompting many people to rush out of homes and beach resorts. There were no immediate reports
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Quakes crack buildings, panic tourists in Philippine town 4/8/2017 1:44:00 PM.

Back-to-back earthquakes cracked small buildings and blocked roads with minor landslides Saturday in a Philippine resort province south of Manila where jittery tourists left and patients were evacuated from a hospital amid aftershocks. Offi
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VIDEO Cutremur de 5,9 grade pe scara Richter, în Filipine / UPDATE Sut.. 4/8/2017 1:40:00 PM.

UPDATE Sute de persoane au fost evacuate din provincia Luzon a statului Filipine, de teama unui tsunami, dupa ce zona a fost afectata sâmbata de trei cutremure puternice, informeaza Reuters. Cele trei cutremure au avut loc în cursul a 20 de
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Three strong earthquakes hit Philippines 4/8/2017 1:37:00 PM.

Three strong earthquakes struck the Philippines main island of Luzon on Saturday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported. The quakes ranged in magnitude from 5.0 to 5.9 and struck Batangas province, about 90 kilometers (55 miles) south of
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),