M 5.8 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 15 Sep 2017 18:48 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 1121529
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.4515 , -28.3156
Event Date: 15 Sep 2017 18:48 UTC
15 Sep 2017 16:48 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Sep 2017 19:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000anjp Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 580 | About casualties: 16 | Last hour: 0

US lawmakers seek immigration protections for CaribbeanTue, 19 Sep 2017 18:36:00 +0200.

Haiti was granted temporary protected status after a 2010 earthquake, but the Trump administration has said those immigration benefits will expire in January. South Florida's congressional delegation and both the state's senators sent a let
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Rogue wave analysis supports investigation of the El Faro sinkingTue, 19 Sep 2017 18:35:00 +0200.

Using weather and sea data from the time of the sinking, along with a new theoretical model, a Georgia Institute of Technology researcher has calculated that there was as much as a one-in-130 chance -- over a period of time and area -- that
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US lawmakers seek immigration protections for CaribbeanTue, 19 Sep 2017 18:18:00 +0200.

MIAMI (AP) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants the U.S. government to extend humanitarian protections to parts of the Caribbean impacted by Hurricane Irma. Haiti was granted temporary protected status after a 2010 earthquake, but the Tr
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US lawmakers seek immigration protections for CaribbeanTue, 19 Sep 2017 18:18:00 +0200.

MIAMI (AP) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants the U.S. government to extend humanitarian protections to parts of the Caribbean impacted by Hurricane Irma. Haiti was granted temporary protected status after a 2010 earthquake, but the T
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),