M 5.5 in United States on 05 Jul 2020 08:53 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 1225196
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 53.3659 , -160.4307
Event Date: 05 Jul 2020 08:53 UTC
04 Jul 2020 21:53 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Jul 2020 09:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ai7p Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 197 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Earthquakes are always big news - or are they?Thu, 09 Jul 2020 03:44:00 +0200.

and rescue workers in Turkey; Credit: © Shutterstock. Shortly after 4.00am on Sunday 20th May, an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck the Emilia-Romagna region of the Po valley in Northern Italy, about 22 miles north-northwest of Bologna. Jo
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ILO summit on COVID-19 and the world of workWed, 08 Jul 2020 18:18:00 +0200.

GENEVA — World leaders spoke at a conference on Wednesday organized by the International Labour Organization on COVID-19 and the world of work. Here are highlights: GUY RYDER, INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION HEAD “The world of work … has
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HIGHLIGHTS-ILO conference on COVID-19 and the world of workWed, 08 Jul 2020 11:06:00 +0200.

GENEVA, July 8 (Reuters) - World leaders spoke at a conference on Wednesday organised by the International Labour Organization on COVID-19 and the world of work. Here are highlights: GUY RYDER, ILO HEAD. "The world of work... has been plung
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Quake hits Indonesia; Tsunami unlikelyTue, 07 Jul 2020 21:20:00 +0200.

JAKARTA : A strong undersea earthquake has hit off the coast of Indonesia’s main island of Java, but no injuries or serious damage were reported immediately. The Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said the temb
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2), CALTECH (1),