M 4.5 in South Sandwich Islands Region on 09 May 2022 04:04 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 1321835
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -59.2657 , -25.2297
Event Date: 09 May 2022 04:04 UTC
09 May 2022 02:04 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 09 May 2022 04:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000h81y 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

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),