M 5.6 in East Of South Sandwich Islands on 03 Mar 2023 04:53 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 1362869
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -59.4108 , -18.0796
Event Date: 03 Mar 2023 04:53 UTC
03 Mar 2023 03:53 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 03 Mar 2023 05:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000jgzb 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.
Virtual OSOCC
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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: 346 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

Los instantes son únicos e irrepetibles2023-03-07T03:17+0100.

Juvenal Balán es fotoperiodista del diario Granma. Autor: Roberto Chile Publicado: 06/03/2023 | 08:36 pm. Con Juvenal coincidí en innumerables coberturas de prensa dentro y fuera de Cuba. Lo he visto trabajar. Jamás flaquear. Viajé a Pakist
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Unrest at Taupō supervolcano rumbles on after 4.4 quake2023-03-07T02:59+0100.

Scientists are keeping the official alert level of New Zealand’s best-known super-volcano slightly raised, as another earthquake beneath Taupō signals an unrest period still rumbling on. It’s now been nearly one year since scientists first
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Sismológico registra sismo de magnitud 4.1 en Sayula de Alemán2023-03-07T02:49+0100.

Información preliminar señala que el temblor tuvo un epicentro 48 km al sur de la ciudad, en el estado de Veracruz, con una profundidad de 141.9 km y fue percibido por los habitantes de la localidad. Ante una actividad sísmica importante
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Unrest at Taupō supervolcano rumbles on after 4.4 quake2023-03-07T02:18+0100.

Scientists are keeping the official alert level of New Zealand’s best-known super-volcano slightly raised, as another quake beneath Taupo signals an unrest period still rumbling on. Image / GeoNet Scientists are keeping the official alert l
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),