M 5.7 in United States on 21 Nov 2018 18:21 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 1162957
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 145.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 59.9732 , -153.3083
Event Date: 21 Nov 2018 18:21 UTC
21 Nov 2018 09:21 Local
Exposed Population: About 4000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Nov 2018 18:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak20386247 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 212 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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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.
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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), CALTECH (1),