Overall Green Earthquake alert in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 07 Feb 2017 14:26 UTC

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M 5.1 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 07 Feb 2017 14:26 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 1105035
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.1M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-56.3999 , -25.8719
Event Date:	07 Feb 2017 14:26 UTC 07 Feb 2017 12:26 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	07 Feb 2017 14:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us20008i84	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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