M 5.5 in Volcano Islands, Japan Region on 01 May 2022 21:57 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 1320879
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 44.91 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.6654 , 142.7335
Event Date: 01 May 2022 21:57 UTC
02 May 2022 07:57 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 01 May 2022 23:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000h69c 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 119 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

POZZUOLI/ Nuova scossa di terremoto con epicentro Solfatara2022-05-04T14:31+0200.

POZZUOLI – I sensori dell’Osservatorio Vesuviano hanno registrato al vulcano Campi Flegrei, alle 05:17 del mattino, un terremoto di magnitudo 1.1, dalla profondità di 2,7 chilometri e con epicentro in via Solfatara. Il sisma, di lieve inten
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Haïti-Environnement : Nouveau tremblement de terre, de magnitude 4, le ... 2022-05-02T19:27+0200.

Par Ronald Colbert. Baradères (Haïti), 02 mai 2022 [AlterPresse] --- Un nouveau tremblement de terre, de magnitude 4.5 sur l’échelle de Richter, vient d’être enregistré, ce lundi 2 mai 2022, à 10:41 am locales (!4:41 gmt) dans le départemen
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Tens of thousands of earthquakes have been recorded in Antarctica2022-05-01T10:55+0200.

According to the latest research, the earthquakes were most likely caused by a “column” of hot magma stuck in the earth’s crust. A “swarm” appeared around him Orca sea mountain It is an inactive underwater volcano that rises 900 meters abov
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Underwater volcano in Antarctica triggers 85,000 earthquakes2022-04-30T09:02+0200.

Home News Science & Astronomy A view of Half Moon Island and Bransfield Strait in Antarctica. (Image credit: Joseph Sohm; Visions of America via Getty Images) A long-dormant underwater volcano near Antarctica has woken up, triggering a swar
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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),