M 4.5 in Iceland on 23 Jun 2022 22:12 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 1327839
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 11.52 Km
Lat/Lon: 64.7227 , -20.4778
Event Date: 23 Jun 2022 22:12 UTC
23 Jun 2022 22:12 Local
Exposed Population:
240 thousand in MMI&>=III
Inserted at: 23 Jun 2022 22:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.9 (Iceland)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000hjs3 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: 13 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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1 min ago “We are living in Iceland, after all”2022-06-26T08:11+0200.

Birgitta Björg Jónsdóttir the directing supervisor of Into the Glacier. á mbl.is/Sigurður Bogi. Birgitta Björg Jóns­dótt­ir, the directing supervisor of. Into the Glacier, which is behind the ice tunnel in Langajökull, says that the earthq
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),