M 5.6 in Ascension Island Region on 11 Jun 2022 07:29 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 1326160
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.0129 , -13.6184
Event Date: 11 Jun 2022 07:29 UTC
11 Jun 2022 06:29 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 11 Jun 2022 07:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000hgp6 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),