M 5.6 in United States on 28 Mar 2016 17:14 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 1083317
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 52.2408 , -168.7171
Event Date: 28 Mar 2016 17:14 UTC
28 Mar 2016 06:14 Local
Exposed Population: Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Mar 2016 18:18 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

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Exige presidente ruso análisis de la crisis migratoria en EuropaFri, 01 Apr 2016 16:35:00 +0200.

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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),