M 6.2 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 26 Jul 2013 21:33 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 1000667
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 57 Km
Lat/Lon: -58.2 , -24.15
Event Date: 26 Jul 2013 21:33 UTC
26 Jul 2013 19:33 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Jul 2013 21:46 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
GEOFON 0 0
gfz2013ooah Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),