M 5.6 Off-shore on 22 Jan 2021 16:23 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 1252733
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 45.62 Km
Lat/Lon: -33.1538 , -179.4848
Event Date: 22 Jan 2021 16:23 UTC
22 Jan 2021 04:23 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Jan 2021 14:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d2f1 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),