Overall Green Earthquake in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 18 Dec 2021 00:58 UTC

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M 4.9 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 18 Dec 2021 00:58 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 1302232
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	53.5 Km
Lat/Lon:	-58.9707 , -25.5221
Event Date:	18 Dec 2021 00:58 UTC 17 Dec 2021 22:58 Local
Exposed Population:	No people affected in 100km
Inserted at:	18 Dec 2021 01:39 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000gdad	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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