M 4.5 in United States on 28 Feb 2016 13:48 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 1081535
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 61.23 Km
Lat/Lon: 61.7809 , -150.6612
Event Date: 28 Feb 2016 13:48 UTC
28 Feb 2016 04:48 Local
Exposed Population:
360188 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Feb 2016 14:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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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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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),