M 5.1 in South Sandwich Islands Region on 27 Apr 2017 13:35 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 1111390
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 32.86 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.8317 , -30.2192
Event Date: 27 Apr 2017 13:35 UTC
27 Apr 2017 11:35 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Apr 2017 13:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008lac Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 716 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Dereham teenager who travelled to Nepal returns home to make a differe ... Mon, 01 May 2017 13:09:00 +0200.

Jake Neal, 19, recently arrived back in the UK after spending three months volunteering in Ikchung, Nepal, where he helped to provide clean water and sanitation to the rural community. Now that he is home he says the life changing adventure
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Ученые назвали новую гипотезу о возникновении цунамиMon, 01 May 2017 13:04:00 +0200.

До последнего времени официальная наука придерживалась версии о том, что цунами вызывается скольжением одной тектонической плиты под другую, что вызывает массивное поднятие океанического дна и образование гигантских волн. Но последние экспе
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Marshall Islands: Asia and the Pacific: Weekly Regional Humanitarian S ... Mon, 01 May 2017 11:58:00 +0200.

MARSHALL ISLANDS. Over the past several weeks, extreme drought was reported in eight atolls across the Marshall Islands including Wotje and Utirik. As of 20 April, the drought has affected an estimated 6,400 people. On 24 April, the Governm
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Japanese Authorities Fighting Wildfire in Evacuation Zone Near Fukushi ... Mon, 01 May 2017 11:48:00 +0200.

Sputnik — According the NHK broadcaster, the wildfire was caused by the lightning strike on Saturday. By the time the authorities of the affected prefectures of Fukushima and Miyagi asked for help from the JSDF, around 20 hectares (0.08 squ
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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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),