M 5.5 in United States on 26 Aug 2012 20:57 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 119041
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 9 Km
Lat/Lon: 33.0243 , -115.549
Event Date: 26 Aug 2012 20:57 UTC
26 Aug 2012 13:57 Local
Exposed Population:
1370000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Aug 2012 21:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
ci15200401 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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 (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),