M 5.8 in West Of Macquarie Island on 05 Mar 2023 22:21 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 1363323
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -55.7338 , 147.3432
Event Date: 05 Mar 2023 22:21 UTC
06 Mar 2023 08:21 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 05 Mar 2023 22:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000jhir 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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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 (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),