Overall Green Earthquake in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 16 Sep 2021 01:20 UTC

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M 5.3 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 16 Sep 2021 01:20 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 1285827
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-56.4829 , -36.412
Event Date:	16 Sep 2021 01:20 UTC 15 Sep 2021 23:20 Local
Exposed Population:	No people affected in 100km
Inserted at:	16 Sep 2021 23:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000fbn4	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	-0.59
	C2 shakemap	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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