M 4.6 in United States on 17 Nov 2017 21:16 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 1126717
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 35.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 60.6076 , -150.635
Event Date: 17 Nov 2017 21:16 UTC
17 Nov 2017 12:16 Local
Exposed Population:
About 73000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Nov 2017 21:23 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak17271046 Scaled population (vector) 4.66  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.65  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 1067 | About casualties: 46 | Last hour: 0

Almost 60,000 Haitians allowed to stay in US only until 2019Tue, 21 Nov 2017 20:59:00 +0100.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said it is ending a temporary residency permit program that has allowed almost 60,000 citizens from Haiti to live and work in the United States since a powerful earthquake shook the Caribbean natio
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US ending temporary permits for almost 60,000 HaitiansTue, 21 Nov 2017 20:45:00 +0100.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration said Monday it is ending a temporary residency permit program that has allowed almost 60,000 citizens from Haiti to live and work in the United States since a 2010 powerful earthquake shook the Ca
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Estados Unidos cancela la protección migratoria a haitianosTue, 21 Nov 2017 20:20:00 +0100.

Washington.- La administración del presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, anunció hoy que no renovará la protección migratoria especial conocida como TPS de la que se benefician miles de haitianos desde el devastador terremoto que azotó l
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Estados Unidos retira temporalmente el permiso migratorio a los haitia ... Tue, 21 Nov 2017 19:59:00 +0100.

El Gobierno estadounidense anunció este lunes 21 de noviemnbre que pondrá fin a partir de julio del 2019, el permiso temporal de estadía migratoría (TPS) a los haitianos residentes en el país. Este beneficio llegó después del terremoto de 2
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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.
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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),