M 5.6 in Southeast Of Loyalty Islands on 16 Sep 2022 23:58 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 1338017
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 45 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.2302 , 170.9802
Event Date: 16 Sep 2022 23:58 UTC
17 Sep 2022 10:58 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected in MMI -
Inserted at: 17 Sep 2022 01:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000i8pw 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

Articles: 1858 | About casualties: 176 | Last hour: 0

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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),