M 5.1 in United States on 24 May 2017 06:35 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 1113684
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 53.3579 , -164.4928
Event Date: 24 May 2017 06:35 UTC
23 May 2017 19:35 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 May 2017 06:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008usi Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),