Overall Green Earthquake alert in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 16 Mar 2016 09:24 UTC

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M 5 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 16 Mar 2016 09:24 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 1082596
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.0M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-58.8838 , -23.5191
Event Date:	16 Mar 2016 09:24 UTC 16 Mar 2016 07:24 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	16 Mar 2016 09:45 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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