M 5.5 in South Sandwich Islands Region on 23 May 2022 11:58 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 1323687
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -58 , -25.2175
Event Date: 23 May 2022 11:58 UTC
23 May 2022 09:58 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 23 May 2022 12:20 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000hn9m 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: 796 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

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Xinhua news reported that the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency did not issue a warning for a tsunami as the jolts did not potentially trigger giant waves. The agency said that the quake struck at 9.36 a.m., with the
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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),