M 4.5 in France on 13 May 2022 15:26 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 1322411
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.1305 , -178.1684
Event Date: 13 May 2022 15:26 UTC
13 May 2022 03:26 Local
Exposed Population:
4.4 million in 100km
Inserted at: 13 May 2022 15:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (France)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000hkxm Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),