M 5.5 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 16 Apr 2019 16:59 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 1176800
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -58.7417 , -23.5963
Event Date: 16 Apr 2019 16:59 UTC
16 Apr 2019 14:59 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Apr 2019 18:20 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
us7000377g Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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: 229 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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Building back cheaper and strongerSat, 20 Apr 2019 04:32:00 +0200.

Traditionally, Nepalis have reused building material for temples , or homes, salvaging and recycling them after every earthquake in the past. Nearly 700,000 houses went down in the 2015 quakes, leaving a huge amount of stone, bricks, useful
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Almost two million previously 'hidden' earthquakes have been detectedFri, 19 Apr 2019 16:09:00 +0200.

'It's not that we didn't know these small earthquakes were occurring. The problem is that they can be very difficult to spot amid all of the noise,' says Zachary Ross, lead author of the study form Caltech. They deciphered signs of earthqua
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Tiny earthquakes shake Southern California every 3 minutesFri, 19 Apr 2019 02:10:00 +0200.

Southern California is a lot shakier than ever before realized. According to a new study, a tiny earthquake rumbles through the southern portion of the Golden State every 3 minutes. These temblors won't knock down walls or send palm trees s
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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),