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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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),