M 5.2 in United States on 07 May 2017 04:25 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 1112295
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 68.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 60.1893 , -151.6845
Event Date: 07 May 2017 04:25 UTC
06 May 2017 20:25 Local
Exposed Population:
About 48000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 May 2017 04:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak15950938 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 595 | About casualties: 16 | Last hour: 0

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May 10 (Reuters) - A strong quake of magnitude 6.8 struck north of Antarctica on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but it was not expected to cause a tsunami. The quake's epicenter was 61 miles (98 km) northeast of Visokoi Island,
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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), CALTECH (1), USGS (2),