M 5.5 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 13 Oct 2019 06:09 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 1190335
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 15.22 Km
Lat/Lon: -56.3715 , -26.275
Event Date: 13 Oct 2019 06:09 UTC
13 Oct 2019 04:09 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Oct 2019 06:13 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
us70005ttv Scaled population (raster) 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: 253 | About casualties: 21 | Last hour: 0

Landslide, building damage from Philippine quake kills 4Thu, 17 Oct 2019 06:17:00 +0200.

Debris are scattered on the floor of a damaged store a day after a strong quake struck in Digos, Davao del Sur province, southern Philippines Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. A powerful and shallow earthquake hit several southern Philippine provinc
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Landslide, building damage from Philippine quake kills 4Thu, 17 Oct 2019 06:13:00 +0200.

Debris are scattered on the floor of a damaged store a day after a strong quake struck in Digos, Davao del Sur province, southern Philippines Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. A powerful and shallow earthquake hit several southern Philippine provinc
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Strong quake leaves many dead in Philippines islandThu, 17 Oct 2019 06:11:00 +0200.

Smoke billows from a mall as it catches fire shortly after a strong earthquake struck General Santos city, South Cotabato province, southern Philippines on Wednesday Oct. 16, 2019. Image Credit: AP. This website stores cookies on your comp
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Landslide, building damage from Philippine quake kills 4Thu, 17 Oct 2019 06:09:00 +0200.

Debris are scattered on the floor of a damaged store a day after a strong quake struck in Digos, Davao del Sur province, southern Philippines Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. A powerful and shallow earthquake hit several southern Philippine provinc
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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),