M 5.3 in South Sandwich Islands Region on 19 May 2022 03:29 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 1323114
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -57.0999 , -25.4138
Event Date: 19 May 2022 03:29 UTC
19 May 2022 01:29 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 20 May 2022 01:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000hm6v 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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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),