Overall Green Earthquake alert in South Sandwich Islands Region on 03 Jan 2023 21:52 UTC

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M 5.3 in South Sandwich Islands Region on 03 Jan 2023 21:52 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 1353006
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	37.997 Km
Lat/Lon:	-57.7664 , -25.3937
Event Date:	03 Jan 2023 21:52 UTC 03 Jan 2023 19:52 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at:	04 Jan 2023 02:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000j1xn	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 shakemap	-0.59
	C2 shakemap	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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