M 5.5 in United States from 28 May 2017 07:37 UTC to 07:37

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1113965
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 48 Km
Lat/Lon: 53.696 , -160.935
Event Date: 28 May 2017 07:37 UTC
27 May 2017 20:37 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 May 2017 07:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NTWC     0 0
at00oqnjty 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)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),