M 5.8 in United Kingdom on 18 May 2022 06:27 UTC

Hazard models

Rapid Impact
Shakemap
Tsunami

Event summary

This earthquake is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 17.58 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.1188 , 178.7361
Event Date: 18 May 2022 06:27 UTC
18 May 2022 18:27 Local
Exposed Population: 16 million in 100km
Source: NEIC us6000hlxv
Inserted at: 18 May 2022 18:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score: 1.1 (United Kingdom)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000hlxv Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

The green area correspond to areas affected by strong shaking (MMI VI or higher) according to the simulation.


Episode Timeline

IDAlertScoreDateMag, DepthMMI*Population**Tsunami risk***Delay (hh:mm)Source
1443853 0 18 May 2022 06:27 5.6M, 36km 4.45 N/A (in MMI>=VII) N/A 00:08 NTWC
1443856 0 18 May 2022 06:27 5.3M, 12.8km 5.36 N/A (in MMI>=VII) N/A 00:14 ALASKA EC
1443857 0 18 May 2022 06:27 5.7M, 19.25km 5.58 N/A (in MMI>=VII) N/A 00:22 NEIC
1443926 0 18 May 2022 06:27 5.8M, 17.58km 5.78 N/A (in MMI>=VII) N/A 11:53 NEIC
The episode that generated the alert; the next major evaluations beyond 12 hours will not trigger additional alerts.
The episode that has the last updated information.
* The max MMI detected for sources having shakemaps;
** The population detected in MMI>=7 for episode with shakemap or in a 100km radius;
*** The tsunami max height.

Rapid Impact

The results presented below are calculated with the ShakeMap open source software (USGS) using only earthquake hypocenter information to provide a rapid estimation of the ground motion and shaking intensity without taking into account any instrumental observations or earthquake source scaling laws.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened in United States ,of Alaska. The alertlevel for this event is GREEN

Intensity Population
no people

Affected Provinces

Intensity Region Province Country Population
Alaska United States no people

Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

More information

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