M 6.2 in United States on 22 Aug 2018 09:31 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 1154591
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 43.6449 , -127.6031
Event Date: 22 Aug 2018 09:31 UTC
22 Aug 2018 00:31 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Aug 2018 09:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us1000gf8u Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 374 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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2 dead, 241 injured in 6-magnitude earthquake in western Iran – offici ... Sun, 26 Aug 2018 08:02:00 +0200.

Locator map of Iran. TEHRAN, Iran – Two people were killed and more than 200 injured in a strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake that struck western Iran near the border with Iraq early Sunday, August 26, officials told local media. The shallow qu
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Point de l'actualité à 03H00 GMTSun, 26 Aug 2018 05:45:00 +0200.

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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 (88), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),