M 6.7 in Prince Edward Islands Region on 22 Jan 2019 19:01 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 1168627
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -43.0778 , 42.2262
Event Date: 22 Jan 2019 19:01 UTC
22 Jan 2019 22:01 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Jan 2019 19:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us2000j7dn 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      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 51 | About casualties: 14 | Last hour: 0

Latest NewsMon, 21 Jan 2019 04:32:00 +0100.

A Saturday Night Live sketch on NBC on a supposed earthquake trapping name-change applicants in a government office name-drops Sacramento. Pulga — the tiny Butte County community that was hit hard by November’s deadly Camp Fire — was issue
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What is the strongest earthquake to hit the US?Fri, 18 Jan 2019 19:54:00 +0100.

The largest earthquake to hit the United States struck on March 28, 1964. The magnitude 9.2 quake struck Prince William Sound in Alaska, devastating the state and triggering a tsunami. The following is a list of the largest earthquakes that
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What is the strongest earthquake to hit the US?Fri, 18 Jan 2019 19:50:00 +0100.

The largest earthquake to hit the United States struck on March 28, 1964. The magnitude 9.2 quake struck Prince William Sound in Alaska, devastating the state and triggering a tsunami. The following is a list of the largest earthquakes that
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What is the strongest earthquake to hit the US? Source: Cox Media Grou ... Fri, 18 Jan 2019 19:30:00 +0100.

The largest earthquake to hit the United States struck on March 28, 1964. The magnitude 9.2 quake struck Prince William Sound in Alaska, devastating the state and triggering a tsunami. The following is a list of the largest earthquakes that
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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 (91), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (2), NOAA (1),