Overall Green Earthquake alert in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 13 Jun 2013 21:27 UTC

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M 4.6 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 13 Jun 2013 21:27 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 1000176
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	127.6 Km
Lat/Lon:	-56.2523 , -27.1444
Event Date:	13 Jun 2013 21:27 UTC 13 Jun 2013 19:27 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	14 Jun 2013 00:05 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		n.a
	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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