M 4.6 in Italy on 22 Sep 2022 15:47 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 1338844
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 18.654 Km
Lat/Lon: 44.1351 , 10.6239
Event Date: 22 Sep 2022 15:47 UTC
22 Sep 2022 17:47 Local
Exposed Population:
490 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 22 Sep 2022 16:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.4 (Italy)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us7000ia8f Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.68  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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

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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 (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),