Overall Green Earthquake alert in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 03 Aug 2016 15:15 UTC

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M 5.1 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 03 Aug 2016 15:15 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 1091211
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.1M
Depth:	13.52 Km
Lat/Lon:	-55.7108 , -27.206
Event Date:	03 Aug 2016 15:15 UTC 03 Aug 2016 13:15 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	03 Aug 2016 15:48 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us100069s6	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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