M 7.9 in United States on 23 Jan 2018 09:31 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 1131605
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.9M
Depth: 25 Km
Lat/Lon: 56.0464 , -149.0728
Event Date: 23 Jan 2018 09:31 UTC
22 Jan 2018 23:31 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Jan 2018 10:20 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (United States)
Maximum Wave Height observed: 0.21336 m

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.5 0.5
us2000cmy3 Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave scenario 1.01m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0.53m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

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