M 5.9 in Azores Islands Region on 28 Nov 2022 02:51 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 1348141
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.0793 , -32.3975
Event Date: 28 Nov 2022 02:51 UTC
28 Nov 2022 00:51 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 28 Nov 2022 03:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)
GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000isuh Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),