M 6.9 in Macquarie Island Region on 19 May 2022 10:13 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: 6.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -54.1373 , 159.0844
Event Date: 19 May 2022 10:13 UTC
19 May 2022 21:13 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Source: NEIC us6000hm9j
Inserted at: 19 May 2022 11:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score: 1.1 ()

GDACS Score

For more info on GDACS alert score click here.
  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us6000hm9j Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  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
1444024 0 19 May 2022 10:13 7.3M, 29.3km 6.85 N/A (in MMI>=VII) 0m (at 00:00) 00:16 PTWC
1444026 0 19 May 2022 10:13 7.3M, 29km 6.87 N/A (in MMI>=VII) 0m (at 00:00) 00:24 NTWC
1444030 0 19 May 2022 10:13 6.7M, 10km 7.1 N/A (in MMI>=VII) 0m (at 00:00) 00:26 NEIC
1444033 0 19 May 2022 10:13 6.9M, 10km 7.11 N/A (in MMI>=VII) 0m (at 00:00) 00:49 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 Australia ,of Tasmania (population 472,122) . The alertlevel for this event is GREEN

Intensity Population
no people

Affected Provinces

Intensity Region Province Country Population
Tasmania Australia no people
Tasmania Australia no people

Critical infrastructure

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

More information

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