M 5.3 in United States on 13 Feb 2017 07:17 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 1105459
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 7.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 62.5154 , -142.7485
Event Date: 13 Feb 2017 07:17 UTC
12 Feb 2017 22:17 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Feb 2017 07:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.4 (Canada)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Canada= 2.4; United States= 2.2

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak15260927 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 620 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

AP Top News 25 MINS AGO Robot probes show Japan reactor cleanup worse ... Fri, 17 Feb 2017 07:10:00 +0100.

TOKYO (AP) - Robot probes sent to one of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear reactors have suggested worse-than-anticipated challenges for the plant's ongoing cleanup. The plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the remote-controlled "
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Robot probes show Japan reactor cleanup worse than expectedFri, 17 Feb 2017 07:01:00 +0100.

TOKYO (AP) — Robot probes sent to one of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear reactors have suggested worse-than-anticipated challenges for the plant’s ongoing cleanup. The plant’s operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the remote-controlled “
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Robot probes show Japan reactor cleanup worse than expectedFri, 17 Feb 2017 06:58:00 +0100.

TOKYO (AP) — Robot probes at one of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear reactors have suggested worse-than-anticipated challenges for the plant's ongoing cleanup. The plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. says the remote-controlled "scor
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Robot probes show Japan reactor cleanup worse than expectedFri, 17 Feb 2017 06:49:00 +0100.

TOKYO (AP) — Robot probes sent to one of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear reactors have suggested worse-than-anticipated challenges for the plant’s ongoing cleanup. The plant’s operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the remote-controlled “
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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),