M 4.71 in United States on 20 Jan 2015 13:21 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 1047171
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 9.87 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.4338341 , -120.9708328
Event Date: 20 Jan 2015 13:21 UTC
20 Jan 2015 05:21 Local
Exposed Population:
974459 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Jan 2015 13:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 259 | About casualties: 27 | Last hour: 0

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Philippine typhoon weakens to a storm; 3 deadThu, 22 Jan 2015 01:18:00 +0100.

LEGAZPI, PHILIPPINES, DEC 08 - Typhoon Hagupit weakened into a storm Monday after it left at least three people dead and sent more than a million others into shelters, sparing the central Philippines the massive devastation that a monster s
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Record numbers evacuated in Malaysia's worst floods in decadesThu, 22 Jan 2015 01:18:00 +0100.

Environment Record numbers evacuated in Malaysia's worst floods in decades KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, DEC 26 - More than 100,000 people have been evacuated from their homes by authorities in five northern states of Malaysia hit by the Southea
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Philippine typhoon weakens but leaves 21 deadThu, 22 Jan 2015 01:18:00 +0100.

Environment Philippine typhoon weakens but leaves 21 dead LEGAZPI, PHILIPPINES, DEC 08 - Typhoon Hagupit weakened into a tropical storm Monday, leaving at least 21 people dead and forcing more than a million people into shelters but sparin
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),