M 4.9 in East Of South Sandwich Islands on 17 Apr 2017 14:33 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 1110508
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -59.5453 , -20.2819
Event Date: 17 Apr 2017 14:33 UTC
17 Apr 2017 13:33 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Apr 2017 15:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008id4 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),