Overall Green Earthquake alert in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 13 Aug 2021 20:04 UTC

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M 5.3 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 13 Aug 2021 20:04 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 1281546
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-57.859 , -23.8705
Event Date:	13 Aug 2021 20:04 UTC 13 Aug 2021 18:04 Local
Exposed Population:	No people affected in 100km
Inserted at:	13 Aug 2021 20:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000f5u9	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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),

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