M 5.1 in United States on 13 Feb 2016 17:07 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 1080562
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 7.68 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.4905 , -98.741
Event Date: 13 Feb 2016 17:07 UTC
13 Feb 2016 11:07 Local
Exposed Population: 130000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Feb 2016 19:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),