M 5.5 in South Of Mariana Islands on 15 May 2022 11:09 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 1322631
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 19.49 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.8795 , 142.2766
Event Date: 15 May 2022 11:09 UTC
15 May 2022 20:09 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 15 May 2022 11:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000hlak Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Quake-prone Hutt Hospital okayed on decade-old report finding serious ... 2022-05-19T05:05+0200.

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Six arrested as Deputy Lands Minister warns residents of Ga South of l ... 2022-05-18T22:15+0200.

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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 (5), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),