M 5.5 in South Sandwich Islands Region on 18 May 2022 20:23 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 1323069
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 30.7 Km
Lat/Lon: -58.7977 , -25.3229
Event Date: 18 May 2022 20:23 UTC
18 May 2022 18:23 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 18 May 2022 20:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000hm4d Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 803 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),