M 4.8 in United States on 10 Oct 2015 09:20 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 1068676
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 6.43 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.7069 , -97.9059
Event Date: 10 Oct 2015 09:20 UTC
10 Oct 2015 04:20 Local
Exposed Population:
264686 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Oct 2015 09:36 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 338 | About casualties: 25 | Last hour: 0

Quake of magnitude 6.3 strikes off Russia’s Kurile Islands: USGSWed, 14 Oct 2015 09:19:00 +0200.

SINGAPORE - An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck 226 km (140 miles) south of Russia’s Kurile Islands on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties from the earthq
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Quake of magnitude 6.3 strikes off Russia's Kurile Islands: USGSWed, 14 Oct 2015 08:43:00 +0200.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck 226 km (140 miles) south of Russia's Kurile Islands on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey reported. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties from the ear
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Quake of magnitude 6.3 strikes off Russia's Kurile Islands: USGSWed, 14 Oct 2015 08:37:00 +0200.

SINGAPORE An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck 226 km (140 miles) south of Russia's Kurile Islands on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey reported. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties from the earthquake, whi
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Hii ndoto ni ya kweli na hakika, haina budi kutimia.Wed, 14 Oct 2015 07:54:00 +0200.

MGOMBEA urais kwa tiketi ya CCM, Dk John Magufuli, amewahakikishia wana-CCM na Watanzaia kwa ujumla kuwa mwaka huu, chama kitapata ushindi wa Tsunami na si wa kishindo wala kimbunga. Dk Magufuli alisema hayo nje ya ofisi ya chama hicho mkoa
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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),