M 4.5 in United States on 14 Aug 2016 04:05 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 1091824
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 61.65 Km
Lat/Lon: 52.2427 , -171.6494
Event Date: 14 Aug 2016 04:05 UTC
13 Aug 2016 17:05 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Aug 2016 04:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006dpm 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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Meteo assessment
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 805 | About casualties: 22 | Last hour: 0

Auckland's outdated tsunami warning system to get overhaulThu, 18 Aug 2016 02:53:00 +0200.

Auckland's outdated tsunami warning sirens are only reaching 8 per cent of people in harm's way and are set to be replaced by newer technologies. All 44 fixed tsunami sirens in the region would be decommissioned, John Dragicevich, Auckland
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Louisiana assesses flood damage as residents return to soaked homesThu, 18 Aug 2016 02:53:00 +0200.

By Sam Karlin. GONZALES, La., Aug 17 (Reuters) - Ron Allen set out electric fans at his rental property in southeastern Louisiana on Wednesday, hoping to dry floors that had been swamped by nearly a foot of water. "We've got to pull out the
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Louisiana assesses flood damage as residents return to soaked homesThu, 18 Aug 2016 02:44:00 +0200.

GONZALES, La. Ron Allen set out electric fans at his rental property in southeastern Louisiana on Wednesday, hoping to dry floors that had been swamped by nearly a foot of water. "We've got to pull out the wood, pull out the vinyl. But firs
...(more)
Over 82,000 flee California wildfireThu, 18 Aug 2016 02:36:00 +0200.

Print : World LOS ANGELES: A rapidly spreading fire raging east of Los Angeles forced the evacuation of more than 82,000 people as the governor of California declared a state of emergency. Despite the efforts of 1,250 firefighters with mor
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),