M 6.3 in Southeast Indian Ridge on 04 Feb 2022 20:25 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 1308821
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -48.0343 , 99.4981
Event Date: 04 Feb 2022 20:25 UTC
05 Feb 2022 03:25 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 04 Feb 2022 22:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us7000gi25 Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

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 (92), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (2), NOAA (1),