M 5.3 in United States on 30 May 2017 02:18 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 1114081
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 78.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 60.8382 , -151.8277
Event Date: 30 May 2017 02:18 UTC
29 May 2017 18:18 Local
Exposed Population:
About 33000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 May 2017 02:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
ALASKA EC n.a n.a
ak16139649 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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DHS chief tells Haiti’s president: Start thinking about bringing Haiti.. 6/2/2017 4:49:00 AM.

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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),