M 5 in United States on 15 Feb 2019 18:11 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 1170909
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 55.18 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.7853 , -176.909
Event Date: 15 Feb 2019 18:11 UTC
15 Feb 2019 08:11 Local
Exposed Population:
About 200 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Feb 2019 16:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000jiim Scaled population (vector) 2.96  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.65  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 199 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

La ONU teme que la crisis actual en Haití lastre los avances y deje a ... Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:03:00 +0100.

En un país proclive a los desastres naturales como Haití, que todavía trata de superar los estragos del devastador terremoto de 2010, la actual crisis económica que atraviesa el país y que ha empujado a los haitianos a echarse a las calles
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Rare mega storm could overwhelm Los Angeles area, cause huge damage, e ... Tue, 19 Feb 2019 06:36:00 +0100.

LOS ANGELES (DPA) - Scientists call it California's "other big one", and they say it could cause three times as much damage as a major earthquake ripping along the San Andreas fault. Although it might sound absurd to those who still recall
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El gran terremoto en Bolivia que permitió descubrir una cadena montaño ... Mon, 18 Feb 2019 23:30:00 +0100.

Getty Images La cadena montañosa fue hallada a 660 km de profundidad en la zona de transición entre la parte superior e inferior del manto terrestre. El 9 de junio de 1994, un terremoto masivo sacudió Bolivia. Más de dos décadas después, da
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Terremoto en Bolivia descubrió cadena montañosa más profundaSun, 17 Feb 2019 08:55:00 +0100.

(BBC News Mundo) Más de dos décadas después, datos de ese sismo permitieron a científicos en Estados Unidos y China descubrir una cadena montañosa en las profundidades de la Tierra más espectacular que los Montes Apalaches. El sismo del 94
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),