M 4.8 in United States on 05 May 2016 17:21 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 1085738
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 65.37 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.7077 , 177.7466
Event Date: 05 May 2016 17:21 UTC
06 May 2016 05:21 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 May 2016 21:39 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: 607 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Producers, refiners see prolonged shutdown from Canadian wildfireMon, 09 May 2016 17:07:00 +0200.

By Barani Krishnan. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil producers and refiners braced on Monday for a prolonged shutdown and possible supply constraints from Canada's vast oil sands region as a destructive wildfire raged for a second week. Cooler and
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4.1-magnitude earthquake shakes parts of Haida GwaiiMon, 09 May 2016 17:03:00 +0200.

A mild earthquake has rattled parts of Haida Gwaii. Natural Resources Canada says the 4.1 shaker hit moments before 7 p.m. last night and was centred about 68 kilometres south of the Village of Queen Charlotte. It was triggered 10 centimetr
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Producers, refiners see prolonged shutdown from Canadian wildfireMon, 09 May 2016 16:56:00 +0200.

By Barani Krishnan. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil producers and refiners braced on Monday for a prolonged shutdown and possible supply constraints from Canada's vast oil sands region as a destructive wildfire raged for a second week. Cooler and
...(more)
Los tinerfeños ?en alerta? por un falso maremotoMon, 09 May 2016 16:18:00 +0200.

Los tinerfeños amanecieron este domingo 8 de mayo alertados por la llegada de un falso maremoto a las costas del norte de la Isla . La noticia ha corrido como la pólvora por las redes sociales llegando a ser compartida por más de 24.000 per
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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),