M 6.8 in United States on 11 Jan 2022 11:35 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 1305471
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.8M
Depth: 22.32 Km
Lat/Lon: 52.6563 , -167.9169
Event Date: 11 Jan 2022 11:35 UTC
11 Jan 2022 00:35 Local
Exposed Population: Less than 100 people in MMI VI
Few people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 11 Jan 2022 12:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.2 0.2
us7000gavu Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave scenario 0.04m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0.23m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.65      
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (88), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), CALTECH (1), NOAA (1),