M 5.7 Off-shore on 09 Dec 2024 16:31 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 1456876
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 18.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.0366 , -177.5501
Event Date: 09 Dec 2024 16:31 UTC
09 Dec 2024 04:31 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected in MMI&>=III
Inserted at: 09 Dec 2024 16:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000nxbs 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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1), CALTECH (1),