M 6.9 in United States on 11 Oct 2021 09:10 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 1289632
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.9M
Depth: 69.1 Km
Lat/Lon: 56.2584 , -156.5532
Event Date: 11 Oct 2021 09:10 UTC
11 Oct 2021 01:10 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI V
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 18 Oct 2021 15:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0 0
ak021d1u1nos Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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