M 4.9 in United States on 27 Oct 2016 12:44 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 1096612
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 12.69 Km
Lat/Lon: 53.6309 , -163.3135
Event Date: 27 Oct 2016 12:44 UTC
27 Oct 2016 01:44 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Oct 2016 12:57 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100072c6 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: 691 | About casualties: 30 | Last hour: 0

New strong earthquake hits central Italy, buildings collapseMon, 31 Oct 2016 11:51:00 +0100.

A strong earthquake measuring 6.6 magnitude struck central Italy on Sunday, causing the collapse of more buildings in small cities and towns already shaken by tremors in the past two months, although there no immediate reports of casualties
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Emergenza terremoto: come sapere se ci si trova in zone a rischioMon, 31 Oct 2016 11:48:00 +0100.

Da fonti ufficiali della Protezione Civile , sappiamo che “l’Italia è un paese interamente sismico, ma il suo territorio è classificato in zone a diversa pericolosità”. Costruire o modificare una casa in una zona a rischio di significa risp
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Philippines: Asia and the Pacific: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapsh ... Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:43:00 +0100.

PHILIPPINES. Typhoon Haima struck the northern Philippines on 19 October. As of 28 October, nearly 31,000 people remained displaced in Region III and Cordillera Administrative Region as a result of Typhoon Haima (4,000 people are in 20 evac
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03:49 Nuevo terremoto sacude centro de ItaliaMon, 31 Oct 2016 11:29:00 +0100.

ROMA. Tras los sismos de la semana pasada, el centro de Italia se vio nuevamente sacudido por un sismo, esta vez de magnitud 6.5 y el más fuerte desde 1980, que dejó unos 20 heridos y graves daños materiales, informó el director de Protecci
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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),