M 6.2 in United States on 23 Jan 2020 05:53 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 1202962
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.9196 , -177.8269
Event Date: 23 Jan 2020 05:53 UTC
22 Jan 2020 19:53 Local
Exposed Population: About 100 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Jan 2020 07:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us60007djn Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.65      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 297 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

Earthquake strikes off the coast of Vancouver Island near Ucluelet; no ... Mon, 27 Jan 2020 04:19:00 +0100.

UCLUELET, B.C. — Earthquakes Canada say no tsunami is expected following a magnitude 4.5 earthquake that was felt on Vancouver Island and in Greater Vancouver. The federal agency says the seismic event was detected at 1:35 p.m. Pacific time
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MIL-OSI Translation: Turkey : the UN offers its support following the ... Sun, 26 Jan 2020 22:27:00 +0100.

The Secretary-general of the United Nations, António Guterres, is deeply saddened by the “loss of human lives and destruction of property” caused by an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 struck eastern Turkey on Friday night. EDITOR’S NOTE:
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Taal lockdown partly lifted alert level lowered to 3Sun, 26 Jan 2020 17:43:00 +0100.

BATANGAS, Philippines Evacuees, some of whom had waited as early as the crack of dawn for an end to the lockdown, rushed back to their homes yesterday after the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) lowered the alert
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Turquie : l'ONU offre son soutien suite au tremblement de terre meurtr ... Sun, 26 Jan 2020 15:47:00 +0100.

« Le Secrétaire général présente ses condoléances aux familles des victimes, ainsi qu'au peuple et au gouvernement turcs », a déclaré le porte-parole de l'ONU, Stéphane Dujarric, dans un communiqué publié en fin de journée samedi. « Il souh
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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 (91), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),