M 4.6 in United States on 12 May 2017 00:54 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 1112773
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 17.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 56.8723 , -152.6123
Event Date: 12 May 2017 00:54 UTC
11 May 2017 14:54 Local
Exposed Population:
About 2000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 May 2017 01:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak16021874 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), CALTECH (1), USGS (2),