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

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M 4.9 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 01 Dec 2021 20:20 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 1299636
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-60.1355 , -24.8687
Event Date:	01 Dec 2021 20:20 UTC 01 Dec 2021 18:20 Local
Exposed Population:	No people affected in 100km
Inserted at:	07 Dec 2021 22:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000g89s	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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