M 4.9 in Canada on 23 Nov 2020 03:50 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 1244808
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 73.1778 , -95.8721
Event Date: 23 Nov 2020 03:50 UTC
22 Nov 2020 21:50 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Nov 2020 04:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.4 (Canada)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000crk3 Scaled population (vector) 0.7  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.68  
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Latest media headlines

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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 (41), (3), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),