M 5.5 in United States on 23 Jul 2018 06:53 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 1151268
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 0.63 Km
Lat/Lon: 19.4101667 , -155.2845
Event Date: 23 Jul 2018 06:53 UTC
22 Jul 2018 20:53 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VI
180000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Jul 2018 07:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
HVO 0 0
hv70463607 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.65  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 153 | About casualties: 20 | Last hour: 0

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No charge for Airbnb as victims of Greek wildfires seek shelterFri, 27 Jul 2018 01:32:00 +0200.

Experts say disasters from floods to fires will leave millions homeless, with the private sector under pressure to step in. By Adela Suliman. LONDON, July 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Victims of wildfires that engulfed a seaside town i
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Turks, Greeks hold vigils for victims of Greece wildfireThu, 26 Jul 2018 23:17:00 +0200.

Condolences pour in for the victims of wildfires in Turkey's neighbor Greece. A group of Turks and Greeks came together for a vigil late Wednesday in memory of 82 people that died in fires on the east and west coasts of Greece's Attica regi
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2), HVO (1),