M 4.6 in United States on 18 May 2016 03:25 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 1086479
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 12 Km
Lat/Lon: 65.299 , -151.093
Event Date: 18 May 2016 03:25 UTC
17 May 2016 19:25 Local
Exposed Population:
About 612 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 May 2016 03:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NTWC     0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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),