M 6.1 in United States on 23 May 2019 08:45 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 1180308
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 27.79 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.3631 , -178.3306
Event Date: 23 May 2019 08:45 UTC
22 May 2019 23:45 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 May 2019 08:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60003r2r Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.65  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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 (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),