M 5.5 in Gabon on 04 Dec 2022 09:53 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 1349052
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 3.623 Km
Lat/Lon: -1.0366 , 10.2177
Event Date: 04 Dec 2022 09:53 UTC
04 Dec 2022 10:53 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 04 Dec 2022 10:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6 (Gabon)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us6000j6u0 Scaled population (raster) 1.59  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.11  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 1040 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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Un terremoto de magnitud 5,8 sacude la isla de Java2022-12-08T09:37+0100.

Un terremoto de magnitud 5,8 sacudió este jueves la provincia indonesia de Java Occidental, la más poblada del país, sin que las autoridades informasen inicialmente de daños o víctimas, informó el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos, que r
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Terremoto, scossa di magnitudo 5.8 in Indonesia2022-12-08T09:28+0100.

(Di giovedì 8 dicembre 2022) (Adnkronos) – Un Terremoto di magnitudo 5.8 ha scosso la città Indonesia na di Sukabumi, a circa 100 chilometri dalla capitale Jakarta. La scossa si è verificata a 22 chilometri a sud-est di Sukabumi, una città
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),