Overall Green Earthquake alert in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 29 May 2017 04:55 UTC

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M 5 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 29 May 2017 04:55 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 1114033
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.0M
Depth:	11.56 Km
Lat/Lon:	-56.2961 , -25.6819
Event Date:	29 May 2017 04:55 UTC 29 May 2017 02:55 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	29 May 2017 05:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is.)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10008vzy	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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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