M 5.8 in United Kingdom on 18 May 2022 06:27 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 1323011
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 17.58 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.1188 , 178.7361
Event Date: 18 May 2022 06:27 UTC
18 May 2022 18:27 Local
Exposed Population: 16 million in 100km
Inserted at: 18 May 2022 18:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (United Kingdom)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000hlxv Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 660 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

5.8-magnitude quake strikes off Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture, no tsunami ... 2022-05-22T06:30+0200.

TOKYO, May 22 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 on Sunday struck off Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The temblor occurred at around 12:24 p.m. local time at a latitude of 36.8
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5.8-magnitude quake strikes off Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture, no tsunami ... 2022-05-22T06:23+0200.

TOKYO, May 22, 2022 (BSS/Xinhua) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 on Sunday struck off Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The temblor occurred at around 12:24 p.m. local time at a latitude
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1st LD Writethru: 5.8-magnitude quake strikes off Japan's Ibaraki Pref ... 2022-05-22T06:10+0200.

TOKYO, May 22 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 on Sunday struck off Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).
1st LD Writethru: 5.8-magnitude quake strikes off Japan's Ibaraki Pref ... 2022-05-22T06:10+0200.

TOKYO, May 22 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 on Sunday struck off Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The temblor occurred at around 12:24 p.m. local time at a latitude of 36.8
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2), CALTECH (1),