M 4.7 in United States on 15 May 2017 14:31 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 1113063
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 42.34 Km
Lat/Lon: 52.3332 , -173.5943
Event Date: 15 May 2017 14:31 UTC
15 May 2017 05:31 Local
Exposed Population: Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 May 2017 15:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008sjv 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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),