M 5.5 Off-shore on 27 May 2023 15:21 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 1375954
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 52.948 Km
Lat/Lon: -57.9619 , -25.6537
Event Date: 27 May 2023 15:21 UTC
27 May 2023 13:21 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 29 May 2023 18:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000k4gs 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.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 244 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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– Gulf Hauraki weather (@GulfHauraki) May 31, 2023. In 2009, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Fjordland near the northern end of the trench, releasing 25,000 times more energy than the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945 and twisti
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Magnitude 6.2 earthquake detected off New Zealand's south coast2023-05-31T14:14+0200.

There was no immediate tsunami warning and no reports of damage on the New Zealand mainland. The US Geological Survey on Wednesday reported a 6.2-magnitude earthquake off New Zealand's southern coast, near the mostly uninhabited Auckland
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Magnitude 6.2 earthquake detected off N. Zealand’s south coast2023-05-31T13:32+0200.

by The Frontier Post AUCKLAND (AFP): The US Geological Survey on Wednesday reported a 6.2-magnitude earthquake off New Zealand’s southern coast, near the mostly uninhabited Auckland Islands. New Zealand’s GeoNet monitoring agency said th
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Japon: le Parlement vote une loi prolongeant les réacteurs nucléaires ... 2023-05-31T13:26+0200.

Au Japon, le Parlement a approuvé définitivement, ce mercredi 31 mai, un projet de loi controversé étendant à plus de 60 ans la durée d'exploitation des centrales nucléaires – contre 40 années aujourd'hui. Ce projet, qui divisait le pays, a
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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),