M 6.3 in South Of Fiji Islands on 22 May 2022 07:06 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 1323518
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 589.53 Km
Lat/Lon: -26.214 , 178.3915
Event Date: 22 May 2022 07:06 UTC
22 May 2022 19:06 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 22 May 2022 07:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us6000hn1e Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 747 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

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Strong earthquake shakes south Mexico; no injuries reported2022-05-26T02:53+0200.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A strong magnitude 5.5 earthquake shook southern Mexico on Wednesday, setting off alarms and driving anxious residents of Oaxaca into the street. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake’s epicenter was 3 miles (5 kilome
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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 (84), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (3), INFORM (2), USGS (2), NOAA (1),