M 4.5 in Halmahera, Indonesia on 23 May 2022 16:45 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 1323725
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 63.78 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.7199 , 127.2709
Event Date: 23 May 2022 16:45 UTC
24 May 2022 01:45 Local
Exposed Population:
330 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 29 May 2022 20:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000hbz1 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 572 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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Istanbul. AA / Istanbul. Un séisme de magnitude de 6,4 sur l'échelle de Richter a secoué, vendredi, le large du Timor oriental, en Asie du Sud-est. "Un tremblement de terre de magnitude 6,4 s'est produit au large du Timor oriental", a décla
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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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),