M 6.9 in United States on 04 May 2018 22:32 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 1142085
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.9M
Depth: 5 Km
Lat/Lon: 19.3702 , -155.0321
Event Date: 04 May 2018 22:32 UTC
04 May 2018 12:32 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VIII
130000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 May 2018 23:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.7 0.7
us1000dyad Scaled population (vector) 2.32 Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0.71m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.65      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 271 | About casualties: 35 | Last hour: 0

VIDEO. Hawaï : cette impressionnante éruption du volcan Kilauea englou ... Tue, 08 May 2018 18:02:00 +0200.

Les images sont impressionnantes. Du sol fissuré surgit de la lave en fusion, recouvrant tout sur son passage. Depuis jeudi 3 mai, le volcan Kilauea, situé à l'est de l'île d'Hawaï (Etats-Unis), déverse lentement sa lave sur des zones d'hab
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PolyU endeavors in disaster management and disaster risk reductionTue, 08 May 2018 16:02:00 +0200.

Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. In the past decade after the devastated 5.12 Wenchuan Earthquake in Sichuan, academics and students from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have been working on a series of inter-disci
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Hawái: volcán Kilauea desaparece autos y destruye todo un vecindario [ ... Tue, 08 May 2018 15:08:00 +0200.

En Hawái , la destrucción del volcán Kilauea Estados Unidos no cesa, debido a que las grietas en las calles han provocado que la lava se expanda con mayor rapidez, a tal punto que autos y viviendas sean completamente destruidos por la lava.
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Hartford Parish To Hold Forum On Immigrants Losing Protected StatusTue, 08 May 2018 13:32:00 +0200.

A Hartford parish will hold a forum May 24 to brief residents on the Trump administration’s dismantling of a program that allows immigrants fleeing natural disasters or violence in their homelands to live provisionally in the United States,
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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 (88), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),