M 6.2 in Southeast Of Loyalty Islands from 14 Aug 2022 21:04 UTC to 21:04

Event summary

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

GDACS ID EQ 1333647
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 82.536 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.0641 , 170.9274
Event Date: 14 Aug 2022 21:04 UTC
15 Aug 2022 08:04 Local
Exposed Population: Less than 100 people in MMI V
Few people affected in MMI -
Inserted at: 16 Aug 2022 06:28 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us6000iav7 Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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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

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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 (88), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (2), NOAA (1),