M 6.5 Off-shore from 17 Sep 2022 13:41 UTC to 13:41

Event summary

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

GDACS ID EQ 1338099
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.09 , 121.2
Event Date: 17 Sep 2022 13:41 UTC
17 Sep 2022 21:41 Local
Exposed Population: 50 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 17 Sep 2022 13:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 Tsunami GDACS score
GEOFON 0.7 0 0.7
gfz2022sggk Scaled population (vector) 3.81 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.82      
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)

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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 (91), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), TWB (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),