M 5.7 in Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge on 28 May 2022 14:19 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 1324350
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.4466 , -45.0394
Event Date: 28 May 2022 14:19 UTC
28 May 2022 11:19 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 28 May 2022 21:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000hdaa Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 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: 146 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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3,400-year-old ‘lost’ city re-emerges from Tigris River in Iraq2022-06-01T02:44+0200.

An international group of archaeologists have unearthed a 3,400-year-old city under the Tigris River in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen. The “Lost City of Atlantis” isn’t real, but this one was. An inter
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2022 flood cost continues to rise2022-06-01T01:31+0200.

The cost of the record-breaking flood that hit South-East Queensland and Northern New South Wales earlier this year continues to rise and is now Australia’s fourth costliest disaster, the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) said today. As
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Archaeologists Investigate 3,400-Year-Old City Emerging From Tigris Ri ... 2022-05-31T22:30+0200.

A team of archaeologists had to scramble to investigate a 3,400-year-old city before it disappeared again after it emerged from the Tigris River in Iraq due to drought. Their fast reaction allowed them to discover over 100 ancient clay tabl
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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),