M 5.5 in New Caledonia on 19 May 2023 07:13 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 1374629
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.1838 , 170.7609
Event Date: 19 May 2023 07:13 UTC
19 May 2023 18:13 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected in MMI -
Inserted at: 19 May 2023 07:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (New Caledonia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000kd2w Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), WMO (1), INFORM (2),