M 4.5 in United States on 12 Jan 2014 20:24 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 1023160
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 2.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.814 , -122.8148
Event Date: 12 Jan 2014 20:24 UTC
12 Jan 2014 12:24 Local
Exposed Population:
1444565 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Jan 2014 20:32 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),