M 5.7 in Ryukyu Islands, Japan on 18 Sep 2022 08:09 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 1338235
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 26.2527 , 126.0142
Event Date: 18 Sep 2022 08:09 UTC
18 Sep 2022 16:09 Local
Exposed Population: 9 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 18 Sep 2022 08:28 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000i91n Scaled population (raster) 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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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),