M 4.6 in United States on 16 Aug 2016 19:58 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 1091981
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 15 Km
Lat/Lon: 57.0606 , -157.9195
Event Date: 16 Aug 2016 19:58 UTC
16 Aug 2016 11:58 Local
Exposed Population:
About 117 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Aug 2016 20:15 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak13846870 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: 953 | About casualties: 24 | Last hour: 0

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20h39 Nouvelle secousse de magnitude 6 au Japon, pas d'alerte au tsuna ... Sat, 20 Aug 2016 19:43:00 +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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), CALTECH (1), USGS (2),