M 5.1 in United States on 15 Feb 2019 22:54 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 1170915
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 53.6729 , -162.9169
Event Date: 15 Feb 2019 22:54 UTC
15 Feb 2019 11:54 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Feb 2019 00:23 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000jim0 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 209 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Japan announces $10.6m for vulnerable families in KP, Sindh & Balochis ... Tue, 19 Feb 2019 22:37:00 +0100.

Zubair Qureshi. The government of Japan on Tuesday announced US$10.6 million to fight malnutrition, improve livelihoods and increase resilience to natural disasters in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Balochistan provinces of Pakistan. The
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LA's Overdue "Mega-Storm" Could Be More Than Just a Storm, Says ExpertTue, 19 Feb 2019 21:56:00 +0100.

A recent report from the US Army Corps of Engineers warned that Los Angeles is overdue for an epic storm that could displace 1.5 million people with extreme flooding and could last for weeks. This hypothetical catastrophe is sometimes refer
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What is the USGS and what does it do? Source: Cox Media GroupTue, 19 Feb 2019 19:38:00 +0100.

What is the USGS and what does it do? By: Debbie Lord, Cox Media Group National Content Desk Updated: Feb 19, 2019 - 12:37 PM. Unless there is a major earthquake, you may not pay much attention to But when the earth shakes, it’s the USGS t
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What is the USGS and what does it do?Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:32:00 +0100.

By: Debbie Lord, Cox Media Group National Content Desk Updated: Feb 19, 2019 - 9:37 AM. Unless there is a major earthquake, you may not pay much attention to But when the earth shakes, it’s the USGS that provides important initial informat
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),