M 5.54 in United States on 21 May 2023 18:44 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 1375046
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.3775 , -125.5628333
Event Date: 21 May 2023 18:44 UTC
21 May 2023 10:44 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected in MMI -
Inserted at: 21 May 2023 19:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NCAL SS 0 0
nc73890906 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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: 304 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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PANAMA CITY (AP) — A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 struck Wednesday night in the Caribbean Sea just off the Panama-Colombia border, the United States (US) Geological Survey said. There was no immediate word on whethe
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Indonesia: Suman 281 los muertos y 1.016 los heridos tras el tsunami2023-05-25T17:38+0200.

Las autoridades indonesias elevaron a 281 los muertos, a 1.016 los heridos y a 57 los desaparecidos que causó el tsunami desatado tras la erupción del volcán Anak Krakatau en el estrecho de Sonda, entre las islas de Sumatra y Java. La ola g
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (3), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),