M 4.6 in Brazil on 14 May 2022 22:27 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 1322570
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 580.36 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.52 , -71.5215
Event Date: 14 May 2022 22:27 UTC
14 May 2022 17:27 Local
Exposed Population:
50 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 14 May 2022 22:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.1 (Brazil)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000hl70 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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 (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),