M 4.9 in Canada on 10 May 2017 15:14 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 1112644
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 22.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 65.001 , -134.1323
Event Date: 10 May 2017 15:14 UTC
10 May 2017 08:14 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 May 2017 16:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.4 (Canada)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak16017257 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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), CALTECH (1), USGS (2),