M 5.5 in South Of Kermadec Islands on 22 Jun 2020 14:29 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 1223401
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 16.94 Km
Lat/Lon: -33.8156 , -178.0567
Event Date: 22 Jun 2020 14:29 UTC
22 Jun 2020 02:29 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Jun 2020 22:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000agjg Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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