M 5.6 in South Of Mariana Islands from 15 May 2022 11:09 UTC to 11:09

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1322631
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 58.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.916 , 142.375
Event Date: 15 May 2022 11:09 UTC
15 May 2022 20:09 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 15 May 2022 11:23 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
PTWC 0 0
pt22135000 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 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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Latest media headlines

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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 (5), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),