M 5.1 Off-shore on 18 May 2023 11:56 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 1374495
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 37.415 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.7057 , -27.0123
Event Date: 18 May 2023 11:56 UTC
18 May 2023 09:56 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 18 May 2023 12:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000kcss Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

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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),