M 6 in United States on 19 Jul 2018 14:16 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 1150769
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 17.13 Km
Lat/Lon: 54.476 , -160.8965
Event Date: 19 Jul 2018 14:16 UTC
19 Jul 2018 03:16 Local
Exposed Population: About 400 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jul 2018 14:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000g8tr Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.65  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 152 | About casualties: 19 | Last hour: 0

Iranian media: 79 injured in earthquake in southern IranMon, 23 Jul 2018 13:21:00 +0200.

Iran's state TV says a magnitude 5.8 earthquake has injured at least 79 people in the country's south. The United States Geological Survey put the quake's magnitude at 5.9. There were no immediate reports of fatalities. The earthquake stru
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Iranian media: 79 injured in earthquake in southern IranMon, 23 Jul 2018 11:26:00 +0200.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state TV says a magnitude 5.8 earthquake has injured at least 79 people in the country’s south. The United States Geological Survey put the quake’s magnitude at 5.9. There were no immediate reports of fatalities.
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Iranian media: 79 injured in earthquake in southern IranMon, 23 Jul 2018 10:49:00 +0200.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's state TV says a magnitude 5.8 earthquake has injured at least 79 people in the country's south. The United States Geological Survey put the quake's magnitude at 5.9. There were no immediate reports of fatalities.
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Medios: un terremoto causa 79 heridos en el sur de Irán Source: APMon, 23 Jul 2018 10:35:00 +0200.

TEHERÁN, Irán (AP) - Un sismo de magnitud 5,8 causó al menos 79 heridos en el sur de Irán el lunes, dijo la televisora estatal. El Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS) elevó la magnitud del terremoto a 5,9. No se reportaron víctimas
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),