M 5.2 in United States on 14 Apr 2016 01:37 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 1084322
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 29.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.5381 , -174.056
Event Date: 14 Apr 2016 01:37 UTC
13 Apr 2016 13:37 Local
Exposed Population:
About 188 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Apr 2016 03:09 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: 1844 | About casualties: 185 | Last hour: 0

Heavy rain hampers Japan quake rescueSun, 17 Apr 2016 09:30:00 +0200.

Tens of thousands of people forced from their homes by back-to-back earthquakes in southern Japan spent a wet and windy night in temporary shelters on Saturday night. A magnitude 7.3 earthquake shook Kumamoto province on the southwestern is
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Major earthquake strikes EcuadorSun, 17 Apr 2016 09:30:00 +0200.

The quake, which was the strongest to hit Ecuador since 1979, flattened hundreds of buildings across several towns and cities. A local official in the town of Pedernales, near the epicenter, appealed for earth-moving equipment and additiona
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زلزال قوي يقتل العشرات في الإكوادورSun, 17 Apr 2016 09:29:00 +0200.

Image caption شارك زلزال السبت تسبب في انهيارات أرضية وأضرار جسيمة في إقليم كوماموتو. قال شينزو آبي، رئيس وزراء اليابان، إن فرق الإنقاذ تسابق الزمن للعثور على ناجين من الزلزال القوي الذي ضرب البلاد، في ظل توقعات بهبوب عاصفة وسقوط أمطار غزير
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Al menos 77 muertos por terremoto de 7,8 grados en la costa de EcuadorSun, 17 Apr 2016 09:29:00 +0200.

Quito, 17 abr (Agencias/ElPaís.cr).- El número de los muertos a raíz del terremoto de magnitud 7,8 en la escala abierta de Richter en Ecuador alcanzó 77 personas, anunció en rueda de prensa el vicepresidente del país andino, Jorge Glas. “Al
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),