M 5.5 in United States on 01 Mar 2017 10:39 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 1106740
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 58.17 Km
Lat/Lon: 52.1729 , -173.3643
Event Date: 01 Mar 2017 10:39 UTC
01 Mar 2017 00:39 Local
Exposed Population: Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Mar 2017 11:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100085xq Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 653 | About casualties: 26 | Last hour: 0

Tijuana manda “tsunami” de aguas negras a playa de CaliforniaSun, 05 Mar 2017 07:04:00 +0100.

Por más de dos semanas, un hedor de heces, amoniaco y detergente inundó el ambiente del extremo suroeste del territorio continental de Estados Unidos. Los habitantes de la zona habían contactado a oficinas gubernamentales sin obtener respue
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Arizona Plans for slain firefighting crew's station in the works Plans ... Sun, 05 Mar 2017 02:51:00 +0100.

PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) - Prescott residents are trying to come up with a plan to save a fire station that housed 19 firefighters who died in a 2013 wildfire before the city decides to sell the building. The Daily Courier reports that in early
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Sevier County website, hotline established for disaster reliefSat, 04 Mar 2017 22:43:00 +0100.

A burned car sits in a parking lot Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016, in Gatlinburg, Tenn., after a wildfire swept through the area Monday. Three more bodies were found in the ruins of wildfires that torched hundreds of homes and businesses in the G
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National › Lonely deaths of elderly in post-disaster temporary housing ... Sat, 04 Mar 2017 22:14:00 +0100.

SENDAI. Local governments in northeastern prefectures hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster continue to face difficulties in preventing people living alone in temporary housing from dying unnoticed, recent police findings showed.
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),