M 6.3 in Bismarck Sea on 09 May 2022 22:33 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 1321944
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.3689 , 146.347
Event Date: 09 May 2022 22:33 UTC
10 May 2022 08:33 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 09 May 2022 22:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us7000h87i Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0.08m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0.08m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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