M 4.9 in North Of Ascension Island on 22 Jan 2022 06:30 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 1307041
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -1.7716 , -12.9571
Event Date: 22 Jan 2022 06:30 UTC
22 Jan 2022 05:30 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 22 Jan 2022 07:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ge6e Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),