M 4.5 in United States on 27 Feb 2017 16:07 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 1106601
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 22.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 55.2874 , -157.8074
Event Date: 27 Feb 2017 16:07 UTC
27 Feb 2017 05:07 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Feb 2017 16:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak15418443 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),