M 5.4 in United States from 31 Aug 2017 17:46 UTC to 17:46

Event summary

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

GDACS ID EQ 1120359
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 63.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 58.4341 , -153.6002
Event Date: 31 Aug 2017 17:46 UTC
31 Aug 2017 09:46 Local
Exposed Population: About 100 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Aug 2017 17:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak16749110 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 (48), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2), CALTECH (1),