M 5.5 in Hokkaido, Japan Region on 23 May 2022 02:01 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 1323640
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 30.32 Km
Lat/Lon: 41.2572 , 143.0619
Event Date: 23 May 2022 02:01 UTC
23 May 2022 12:01 Local
Exposed Population: 10 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 23 May 2022 02:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000hn6m 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

Articles: 424 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Japan targets more renewables in power sector heavily reliant on fossi ... 2022-05-27T00:44+0200.

Japan's power generation sector totals about 250 GW of operating capacity, with about half fueled by natural gas or coal, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence data. Nuclear resources make up about 10% of the country's generating capa
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Emanuele Trevi: «Sono diventato grande senza sapere nulla»2022-05-26T22:07+0200.

Mentre il freddo invade la casa, nell’apertura di L’onda del porto (postfazione di Pietro Citati, Neri Pozza, pp. 176, euro 17), riedito dopo l’uscita con Laterza nel 2005, in tv continuano a passare le immagini di devastazione dello tsunam
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La confessione del Premio Strega: Sono diventato grande senza sapere n ... 2022-05-26T22:04+0200.

Mentre il freddo invade la casa, nell’apertura di L’onda del porto (postfazione di Pietro Citati, Neri Pozza, pp. 176, euro 17), riedito dopo l’uscita con Laterza nel 2005, in tv continuano a passare le immagini di devastazione dello tsunam
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'Stalle come saune e fieno scarso', Coldiretti e allevatori lanciano l ... 2022-05-26T20:26+0200.

Stalle come saune e allarme fieno nei pascoli toscani. Gli allevatori, tra i più colpiti dallo tsunami rincari a causa di guerra e speculazioni con aumenti fuori controllo ormai da mesi dei costi di produzione di energia, materie prime e me
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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),