M 5.3 in Kermadec Islands Region on 14 May 2022 12:22 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 1322514
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -28.7118 , -176.6856
Event Date: 14 May 2022 12:22 UTC
14 May 2022 00:22 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 14 May 2022 13:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000hl40 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 3 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Transient variation in seismic wave speed points to fast fluid movemen ... 2022-04-25T12:29+0200.

Anomalous SKS travel times. In Fig. 1 , we compare seismograms recorded at station COLA in Alaska from two earthquakes with close hypocenters in the Kermadec Islands region in the South Pacific Ocean. The first earthquake occurred in May 19
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Terremoto oggi Marche, 22 aprile 2022: scossa M 2.1 in provincia di An ... 2022-04-22T13:44+0200.

Terremoto oggi, scossa M 2.1 sulla Costa Marchigiana Anconetana. L ‘Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia ha registrato una sola scossa di terremoto di magnitudo pari o superiore a 2.0 della scala Richter nella giornata di oggi, ve
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Significant Volcanic Eruptions 4360 BC to AD 2022 Poster2022-04-14T16:34+0200.

90 °N 60 °N 30 °N 0° 30 °S 60 °S 90 °S 90 °N 60 °N 30 °N 0° 30 °S 60 °S 90 °S 150°E120°E90°E60°E30°E0° 60°W90°W120°W150°W180° 150°E120°E90°E60°E30°E0° 60°W90°W120°W150°W180° E ects of the Volcanic Eruption: Very Many Deaths (~1001 or more d
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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),