M 6.4 in Southeast Of Loyalty Islands from 26 May 2022 15:37 UTC to 15:37

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: 6.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.8048 , 172.0689
Event Date: 26 May 2022 15:37 UTC
27 May 2022 02:37 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI V
Few people affected in 100km
Source: NEIC us7000hcqw
Inserted at: 26 May 2022 16:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score: 1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us7000hcqw 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
1445291 0 26 May 2022 15:38 6.9M, 10km 4.52 N/A (in MMI>=VII) 0.2m (at 00:52) 00:13 NTWC
1445292 0 26 May 2022 15:37 6.4M, 10km 4.09 N/A (in MMI>=VII) 0m (at 00:00) 00:23 NEIC
1445468 0 26 May 2022 15:37 6.4M, 10km 3.93 N/A (in MMI>=VII) 0m (at 00:00) 23:06 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 unknowed a zone. The alertlevel for this event is GREEN

Intensity Population
no people

Affected Provinces

Critical infrastructure

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

Ports

Intensity Name LOCODE Country Distance
Hunter Island New Caledonia 46 km

More information

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