M 5.9 in Off Coast Of Oregon on 04 Jun 2021 08:17 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 1271608
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 14.49 Km
Lat/Lon: 42.2535 , -126.1498
Event Date: 04 Jun 2021 08:17 UTC
04 Jun 2021 00:17 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Jun 2021 08:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000e9mr Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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