Overall Green Earthquake in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 25 Oct 2017 12:04 UTC

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M 4.9 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 25 Oct 2017 12:04 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 1124644
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-55.2406 , -31.5895
Event Date:	25 Oct 2017 12:04 UTC 25 Oct 2017 10:04 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	25 Oct 2017 12:26 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us1000awnh	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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