M 5.5 in United States on 02 Mar 2017 02:11 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 1106804
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 76.9 Km
Lat/Lon: 59.5863 , -152.6115
Event Date: 02 Mar 2017 02:11 UTC
01 Mar 2017 17:11 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Mar 2017 04:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
ALASKA EC n.a n.a
ak15426300 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 665 | About casualties: 25 | Last hour: 0

Papua New Guinea hit by 6.5 earthquake, no tsunami expectedMon, 06 Mar 2017 01:57:00 +0100.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinea was been shaken by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake on Monday but no destructive tsunami was expected, officials said. The quake struck the South Pacific nation near New Britain island at a depth of 28
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Papua New Guinea hit by 6.5 earthquake, no tsunami expectedMon, 06 Mar 2017 01:50:00 +0100.

CANBERRA, Australia Papua New Guinea was been shaken by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake on Monday but no destructive tsunami was expected, officials said. The quake struck the South Pacific nation near New Britain island at a depth of 28 kilomet
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Mar 05, 2017 7:11PM ESTpublished: Mar 05, 2017 7:03PM ESTMon, 06 Mar 2017 01:50:00 +0100.

Papua New Guinea was been shaken by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake on Monday but no destructive tsunami was expected, officials said. The quake struck the South Pacific nation near New Britain island at a depth of 28 kilometres (17 miles), U.S.
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Papua New Guinea hit by 6.5 earthquake, no tsunami expectedMon, 06 Mar 2017 01:47:00 +0100.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) " Officials say Papua New Guinea has been shaken by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake but no destructive tsunami is expected. U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck the South Pacific nation on Monday near New Britain
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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),