Overall Green Earthquake alert in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 15 Sep 2021 03:31 UTC

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M 5.3 in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on 15 Sep 2021 03:31 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 1285708
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	57.77 Km
Lat/Lon:	-58.3993 , -25.5719
Event Date:	15 Sep 2021 03:31 UTC 15 Sep 2021 01:31 Local
Exposed Population:	No people affected in 100km
Inserted at:	15 Sep 2021 03:48 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000fb9q	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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