M 4.6 in Norwegian Sea on 16 May 2022 21:05 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 1322830
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 72.4388 , 2.8316
Event Date: 16 May 2022 21:05 UTC
16 May 2022 21:05 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 16 May 2022 21:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000hlm0 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),