M 6 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 22 Apr 2019 14:49 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 1177374
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 95.76 Km
Lat/Lon: -56.2647 , -27.3976
Event Date: 22 Apr 2019 14:49 UTC
22 Apr 2019 12:49 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Apr 2019 15:08 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
us70003a91 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: 238 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

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Large seismic rupture spreading, triggering more earthquakes 24 minute ... Fri, 26 Apr 2019 08:04:00 +0200.

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'The equivalent of a magnitude 7.0': Slow-slip rupture spreads south a ... Fri, 26 Apr 2019 07:53:00 +0200.

A month-long "slow slip" event off Gisborne and Mahia is now the equivalent of a magnitude 7.0 earthquake and has spread to Hawke's Bay. GNS Science Geophysicist Laura Wallace said this slow-slip event was now as large as the biggest previo
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AP Photos: Editor selections from the past week in AsiaFri, 26 Apr 2019 07:39:00 +0200.

In this April 23, 2019, file photo, a new type 094A Jin-class nuclear submarine Long March 10 of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy participates in a naval parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of China's P
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),