M 4.9 in Southern Alaska on 12 Mar 2016 21:57 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 1082368
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 99 Km
Lat/Lon: 60.2518 , -152.3118
Event Date: 12 Mar 2016 21:57 UTC
12 Mar 2016 12:57 Local
Exposed Population:
About 46356 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Mar 2016 22:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
ALASKA EC n.a 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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),