M 4.6 in United States on 15 Dec 2017 08:38 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 1128735
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 5 Km
Lat/Lon: 54.7681 , -156.8793
Event Date: 15 Dec 2017 08:38 UTC
14 Dec 2017 22:38 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Dec 2017 08:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000c4rg Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 310 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Japanese court orders Ikata 3 to closeFri, 15 Dec 2017 13:42:00 +0100.

The high court suspension order, the first in a series of similar injunctions, mandates that the plant operator to close the unit until the end of September 2018. The ruling blocks the planned restart of the unit in January. Shikoku Electri
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Steven Zhang esalta i tifosi: "San Siro come Broadway. Quando parte il ... Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:33:00 +0100.

Il figlio di Suning, Steven Zhang, ha parlato del suo approdo nel mondo Inter e del calore dei tifosi e di San Siro. Zhang Jindong , patron di Suning e dell’ Inter , non vuole lasciare nulla al caso e per gestire da vicino il club nerazzurr
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Myanmar: Myanmar soon to be prepared for quakesFri, 15 Dec 2017 09:05:00 +0100.

A ceremony to introduce the National Level Preparedness and Response to Earthquake Project was held yesterday morning at Thingaha Hotel in Nay Pyi Taw. At the meeting, the Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, Dr. Win
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Sistema de monitoreo oceanográfico y atmósferico funcionará en el prim ... Fri, 15 Dec 2017 04:51:00 +0100.

El Ministerio para Ecosocialismo y Aguas y el programa de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo, presentaron este jueves el proyecto del Sistema de Áreas Protegidas Marino-Costeras de Venezuela, que desarrolla un mecanis
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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),