M 6.3 in United States on 29 Aug 2019 15:07 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 1187979
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 5.41 Km
Lat/Lon: 43.5674 , -127.8647
Event Date: 29 Aug 2019 15:07 UTC
29 Aug 2019 06:07 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Aug 2019 14:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us700059qh Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  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: 217 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

'Tsunami democrático', la respuesta unitaria del independentismo contr ... Mon, 02 Sep 2019 13:40:00 +0200.

El movimiento, del que se desconocen sus líderes , tiene como primeros seguidores periodistas y cuentas oficiales de partidos políticos independentistas, como ERC y JxCat, así como destacados dirigentes de la CUP y de estas formaciones. Se
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Bangladesh: Preparing for the unexpected: humanitarians build their ca ... Mon, 02 Sep 2019 12:27:00 +0200.

DHAKA– More than 100 participants from the Government, NGOs and UN agencies gathered in Dhaka for the past three days to build their organizations’ disaster preparedness in one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries. Jointly organized
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Shakes from BVI quake felt here on SaturdayMon, 02 Sep 2019 05:33:00 +0200.

Map shows where Saturday’s earthquake occurred off Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands. SIMPSON BAY--Some early risers and partiers welcoming the dawn of the last day of August got a shake-up they did not anticipate when an earthquak
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Todo lo que debe saber sobre un huracán categoría 5 como DorianMon, 02 Sep 2019 04:10:00 +0200.

Washington, Estados Unidos. Dorian azotó con furia el norte de las islas Bahamas , siendo unos de los huracanes más violentos en tocar tierra en la historia. También es la quinta tormenta Categoría 5 que se forma en el Atlántico en los últi
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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 (91), (5), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),