M 4.7 in United States on 21 Nov 2017 21:02 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 1127075
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 33.05 Km
Lat/Lon: 55.3004 , -157.929
Event Date: 21 Nov 2017 21:02 UTC
21 Nov 2017 10:02 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Nov 2017 21:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000bsi2 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: 334 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Coastal areas in State go through a tsunami preparedness drillFri, 24 Nov 2017 20:48:00 +0100.

Coastal fishermen village Konapapapeta in Thondani mandal of East Godavari district was buzzing with activity on Friday with officials of about 30 government departments conducting a mock drill to create awareness among the local people on
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Tsunami mock drill conductedFri, 24 Nov 2017 20:48:00 +0100.

A tsunami mock drill was conducted at Peda Jalaripeta in the city and at Chukkavanipalem in Bhimunipatnam on Friday from 9.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. The drill saw a series of relief measures being extended to victims in the scenario of earthquak
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Chennai port cargo work halted for tsunami drillFri, 24 Nov 2017 20:48:00 +0100.

All the cargo work at the Chennai port were stopped and all the ships were evacuated to the deep sea even as the working personnel were moved to an elevated area away from the shore as part of the massive mock drill conducted on the East Co
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State’s preparedness to calamities testedFri, 24 Nov 2017 20:48:00 +0100.

A total of 4,399 areas in the coastal regions of the State have been identified as vulnerable to tsunami by a comprehensive study on natural calamities. These areas have been categorised, based on tidal heights, as very highly vulnerable, h
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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),