M 4.8 in Santa Cruz Islands on 10 Aug 2022 02:56 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 1333296
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 141.595 Km
Lat/Lon: -11.8991 , 166.5692
Event Date: 10 Aug 2022 02:56 UTC
10 Aug 2022 13:56 Local
Exposed Population:
6 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 10 Aug 2022 03:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000i9lk Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.18  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),