M 4.5 in United States on 15 Jan 2014 09:35 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 1023582
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 5.2 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.1442 , -117.4457
Event Date: 15 Jan 2014 09:35 UTC
15 Jan 2014 01:35 Local
Exposed Population:
15963851 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Jan 2014 09:39 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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Latest media headlines

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The Northridge earthquake of 1994 1/17/2014 8:41:00 PM.

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PG&E Encourages Customers To Take Simple Steps And Be Better Prepared .. 1/17/2014 7:08:00 PM.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- As the New Year begins, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) encourages customers to make emergency preparedness not only a resolution but one that comes with an action plan. Simple steps like
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Construction stays steady 1/17/2014 3:24:00 PM.

THE construction sector will maintain its 8-percent to 9-percent growth this 2014. This was the projection of Manolito Madrasto, executive director of the Philippine Constructors Association, as he said the growth rate in value (of construc
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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),