M 4.5 in United States on 16 Mar 2017 07:55 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 1107921
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 73.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 57.1134 , -154.2504
Event Date: 16 Mar 2017 07:55 UTC
15 Mar 2017 23:55 Local
Exposed Population:
About 200 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Mar 2017 08:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
ALASKA EC n.a n.a
ak15504355 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

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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),