M 4.5 in Canada on 04 May 2017 03:13 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 1112033
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 59.887 , -136.7538
Event Date: 04 May 2017 03:13 UTC
03 May 2017 20:13 Local
Exposed Population: About 100 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 May 2017 03:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.4 (Canada)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Canada= 2.4; United States= 2.2

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008p4h Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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), CALTECH (1),