M 5 in United States on 30 Jan 2016 00:28 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 1079617
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.8966 , -127.2722
Event Date: 30 Jan 2016 00:28 UTC
29 Jan 2016 16:28 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Jan 2016 00:48 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  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 205 | About casualties: 14 | Last hour: 0

Martin Integrated Issued Second MWISS PatentWed, 03 Feb 2016 00:03:00 +0100.

ORANGE, Calif. Feb. 2, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Martin Integrated Systems, Inc., an Orange County, California , company that designs and installs specialty ceilings, has been issued U.S. Patent No. 9,249,592 for the Martin Wireless I
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Nepal: EU and UNICEF help to restore education in post-earthquake Nepa ... Tue, 02 Feb 2016 22:59:00 +0100.

KATHMANDU, 1 February 2016 - The European Union (EU) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have entered into a partnership to help restore education for one million children affected by the devastating earthquakes that struck Nepa
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Gujarat to form disaster response force to handle rescue operations du ... Tue, 02 Feb 2016 20:11:00 +0100.

To make this force as effective as NDRF and RAF, SDRF will receive training in line with them and get latest equipment and audio-video devices used by the central relief forces. A state disaster response force (SDRF) will be formed to hand
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eNCA | Earthquake strikes in sea off TaiwanTue, 02 Feb 2016 18:47:00 +0100.

TAIWAN - A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck in the northeast of Taiwan on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, with no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The quake hit at 22:19 local time (1419 GMT), USGS said, at a depth of 190 k
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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),