Overall Green Earthquake alert in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 14 Aug 2018 03:29 UTC

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M 6.1 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 14 Aug 2018 03:29 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 1153665
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.1M
Depth:	35 Km
Lat/Lon:	-58.1107 , -25.2588
Event Date:	14 Aug 2018 03:29 UTC 14 Aug 2018 01:29 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	14 Aug 2018 03:52 UTC

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us1000g8kf	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 shakemap	-0.59
	C2 shakemap	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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