M 4.7 in United States on 12 Aug 2017 14:41 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 1119118
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 55.4159 , -151.8479
Event Date: 12 Aug 2017 14:41 UTC
12 Aug 2017 04:41 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Aug 2017 15:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000a7kz 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: 653 | About casualties: 22 | Last hour: 0

Marmara Depreminin 18. YılıWed, 16 Aug 2017 11:30:00 +0200.

Doğal Afet Sigortaları Kurumu (DASK) Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı Murat Kayacı, "17 Ağustos Gölcük depreminin yaşandığı 1999 yılında ülkemizde yalnızca 500 bin civarında deprem teminatlı konut vardı, bugün ise 8 milyon konut Zorunlu Deprem Sigort
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Floods kill more than 300, fears rise for 600 missingWed, 16 Aug 2017 11:28:00 +0200.

Sierra Leone entered a week-long mourning period for the victims of flooding that killed more than 300 people, with fears rising for at least 600 missing people. Three days of torrential rain triggered mudslides on Monday in the Regent area
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Floods kill more than 300, fears rise for 600 missingWed, 16 Aug 2017 10:54:00 +0200.

Three days of torrential rain triggered mudslides on Monday in the Regent area of the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown, and massive flooding elsewhere in the city, one of the world's wettest urban areas, Aljazeera wrote. The exact death tol
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Chch tsunami sirens a 'waste of money' - mayorWed, 16 Aug 2017 08:48:00 +0200.

They were installed by Ms Dalziel's predecessor, Bob Parker, in 2012 and cost $500,000. They were originally only intended as a warning about the risk posed by tsunamis on the other side of the Pacific, where people would have up to 12 hour
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),