Overall Green Earthquake alert in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 07 Jan 2014 07:03 UTC

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M 5 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 07 Jan 2014 07:03 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 1022472
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.0M
Depth:	95.66 Km
Lat/Lon:	-59.7435 , -26.0471
Event Date:	07 Jan 2014 07:03 UTC 07 Jan 2014 05:03 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	07 Jan 2014 07:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		n.a
	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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