M 5.5 in North Atlantic Ocean on 27 Nov 2018 19:34 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 1163515
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.5843 , -49.8988
Event Date: 27 Nov 2018 19:34 UTC
27 Nov 2018 16:34 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Nov 2018 19:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000hx62 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  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: 426 | About casualties: 30 | Last hour: 0

The Latest: Quake aftershocks rattle Alaska, fray nervesSat, 01 Dec 2018 19:32:00 +0100.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Latest on Alaska earthquake (all times local): 8:20 a.m. Strong aftershocks from Alaska’s magnitude 7.0 earthquake continued Saturday around Anchorage, jolting people awake and pummeling already frayed nerves. The U.
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The Latest: Quake aftershocks rattle Alaska, fray nervesSat, 01 Dec 2018 19:27:00 +0100.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Latest on Alaska earthquake (all times local): 8:20 a.m. Strong aftershocks from Alaska's magnitude 7.0 earthquake continued Saturday around Anchorage, jolting people awake and pummeling already frayed nerves.
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The Latest: Quake aftershocks rattle Alaska, fray nervesSat, 01 Dec 2018 19:26:00 +0100.

8:20 a.m. Strong aftershocks from Alaska's magnitude 7.0 earthquake continued Saturday around Anchorage, jolting people awake and pummeling already frayed nerves. The U.S. Geological Survey says there have been 545 aftershocks, including a
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The Latest: Quake aftershocks rattle Alaska, fray nervesSat, 01 Dec 2018 19:21:00 +0100.

In this photo provided by Jonathan M. Lettow, people walk along Vine Road after an earthquake, Friday morning, Nov. 30, 2018, in Wasilla, Alaska. (Jonathan M. Lettow via AP) ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Latest on Alaska earthquake (all tim
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),