M 4.5 in United States on 15 Sep 2016 16:53 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 1094013
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 42.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 53.8078 , -164.2889
Event Date: 15 Sep 2016 16:53 UTC
15 Sep 2016 05:53 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Sep 2016 18:42 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak13991557 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

Articles: 541 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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Grafton County declared natural disaster area amid droughtMon, 19 Sep 2016 15:24:00 +0200.

The United States Department of Agriculture has designated New Hampshire's Grafton County as a natural disaster area due to crop losses caused by extreme drought conditions. “Our hearts go out to those New Hampshire farmers and ranchers af
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Les Allemands dans la rue contre le TTIPMon, 19 Sep 2016 14:48:00 +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),