M 5.4 in United States on 15 May 2016 12:04 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 1086341
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 36.55 Km
Lat/Lon: 52.5549 , -167.9594
Event Date: 15 May 2016 12:04 UTC
15 May 2016 01:04 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 May 2016 12:27 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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),