M 5.6 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 05 Sep 2021 09:59 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 1284627
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 22.99 Km
Lat/Lon: -58.7135 , -25.1981
Event Date: 05 Sep 2021 09:59 UTC
05 Sep 2021 07:59 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 05 Sep 2021 14:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000f875 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 518 | About casualties: 40 | Last hour: 0

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Catastrophe naturelle au Mexique: De nombreux dégâts ont été constatés ... 2021-09-08T22:29+0200.

qui a secoué le centre et le sud du Mexique dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi a fait un mort, ainsi que des dégâts dans les hôpitaux, les maisons, les magasins et les hôtels du port d’Acapulco, ont indiqué les autorités mercredi. Le tremblem
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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),