Overall Green Earthquake in South Sandwich Islands Region on 22 Jul 2022 02:48 UTC

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M 5.1 in South Sandwich Islands Region on 22 Jul 2022 02:48 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 1331544
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.1M
Depth:	60.9 Km
Lat/Lon:	-59.0232 , -25.5906
Event Date:	22 Jul 2022 02:48 UTC 22 Jul 2022 00:48 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at:	22 Jul 2022 03:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000hska	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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