Overall Green Earthquake alert in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 09 Feb 2016 12:28 UTC

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M 5.2 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 09 Feb 2016 12:28 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 1080300
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.2M
Depth:	69.61 Km
Lat/Lon:	-57.874 , -26.0044
Event Date:	09 Feb 2016 12:28 UTC 09 Feb 2016 10:28 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	09 Feb 2016 12:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	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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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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