M 5.83 in United States on 05 Dec 2024 18:47 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 1456140
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 1 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.844165802002 , -122.827499389648
Event Date: 05 Dec 2024 18:47 UTC
05 Dec 2024 10:47 Local
Exposed Population: 50 thousand in MMI&>=V
Inserted at: 05 Dec 2024 18:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NCAL SS 0 0
nc75095671 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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 (3), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),