M 4.9 in United States on 06 May 2017 20:43 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 1112275
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 11.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.9748 , -170.5036
Event Date: 06 May 2017 20:43 UTC
06 May 2017 09:43 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 May 2017 21:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak15945932 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2), CALTECH (1),