Overall Green Earthquake in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 30 Dec 2021 04:58 UTC

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M 5.7 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 30 Dec 2021 04:58 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 1303987
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.7M
Depth:	36.55 Km
Lat/Lon:	-55.8891 , -28.1373
Event Date:	30 Dec 2021 04:58 UTC 30 Dec 2021 02:58 Local
Exposed Population:	No people affected in 100km
Inserted at:	30 Dec 2021 06:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000g7w5	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	-0.59
	C2 shakemap	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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