M 5.7 in Northern Molucca Sea on 14 Aug 2022 02:47 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 1333557
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 30.459 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.8151 , 126.3654
Event Date: 14 Aug 2022 02:47 UTC
14 Aug 2022 11:47 Local
Exposed Population: 20 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 14 Aug 2022 03:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000iamw Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),