Overall Green Earthquake alert in South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is. on 28 May 2016 09:46 UTC

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M 7.2 in South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is. on 28 May 2016 09:46 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 1087125
Earthquake Magnitude:	7.2M
Depth:	72.68 Km
Lat/Lon:	-56.2033 , -26.8926
Event Date:	28 May 2016 09:46 UTC 28 May 2016 07:46 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	28 May 2016 10:30 UTC

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	Earthquake		Tsunami		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		0		0.5
	Scaled population (vector)	n.a	Max wave scenario	0m
	C1 earthquake	n.a	Max wave realtime	0m
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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