M 5.6 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 20 Jan 2022 06:52 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 1306718
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -58.9 , -23.9049
Event Date: 20 Jan 2022 06:52 UTC
20 Jan 2022 04:52 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 20 Jan 2022 07:13 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
us7000gdfw Scaled population (raster) 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 699 | About casualties: 73 | Last hour: 0

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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),