M 4.5 in United States on 16 Jan 2017 21:40 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 1103383
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 57.9302 , -136.7869
Event Date: 16 Jan 2017 21:40 UTC
16 Jan 2017 12:40 Local
Exposed Population:
About 300 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jan 2017 21:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak15081582 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

Articles: 573 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

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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),